Creosote is forced into the wood fibers with high heat and high presure. If
you can ever get on a tour of a modern tie plant (like Webster near La Crosse,
WI). Also the test sitr near Purble, CO had a display of the various tie
materials and designs, very interesting.
--- On Sat, 12/26/09, Grice Dale-MGI1833 <dgrice@motorola.com> wrote:
From: Grice Dale-MGI1833 <dgrice@motorola.com>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Merry Christmas(an odd request....)
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, December 26, 2009, 6:55 PM
A little of topic; but; some ties we get are so hard I can't drive a spike in
all the way with a pneumatic hammer. And these are industrial grade ties.
Dale
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jonathanharris@ earthlink. net
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 6:18 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups. com
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Merry Christmas(an odd request....)
Thanks, Cy and Ken. I had read the Q had planted catalpa on its station grounds
in part as a potential source of tie wood, but I can't imagine that would have
been a very practical, large-scale source. Oak would have been my guess - the
common, standard hard wood historically used for so many things in America:
school desks and chairs and all sorts of office furniture when I was a kid.
Laboratory workbenches too - many many everyday things that later were made of
steel, then aluminum, and finally plastic. The main thing I wondered about w/
respect to RR ties was whether oak might be so dense as to make the absorption
of creosote difficult.
Thanks again,
Jonathan
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