Gerald
I didn't see the picture but I know what a grouting gang looks like. The line
from West Vienna to Metropolis is built on a fill. The problem is that the fill
materiel came from burrow pits beside the track. These were dug with mules
pulling slip scrapers. The problem is that this was river bottom alluvium
slit(world's worst fill materiel) that was not compacted. This made a very soft
and unstable road bed. The Q kept a pressure grouting gang busy there for years
in an effort to stabilize the fill. It didn't work. Next they used a pile
driver to drive scrap rails between the ties in the middle of the track. Next,
they drove used ties in the middle of the track. That didn't work so they drove
used piling at the tie ends which finally stabilized the fill. There is a
picture in the Massac County Historical Society's place in Metropolis that
shows an O-1A with its pilot truck and first set of drivers setting on the
rails then the next three sets of drivers
up in the air and finally the trailing truck on the rail on the other side of
the gap! I talked to fireman of that train ( "Curly" Whorton) and he said it
was quite a ride,although not in those words
John
!--- On Thu, 1/13/11, Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] What is this track crew doing?
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 5:38 PM
Ahhh yes, grouting explains the water AND the Q's penchant for well groomed
track! How did you like the dump truck?
Gerald
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:35:37 -0800
Subject: Re: [CBQ] What is this track crew doing?
Gerald
It is a pressure grouting gang raising the track.
--- On Thu, 1/13/11, Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Subject: [CBQ] What is this track crew doing?
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 9:34 AM
Check vintage photos of ebay lot #140497771332 Pic is CB&Q with big 'stock
watering troughs' along the track and a neat old CB&Q truck. What were they
doing they needed big containers of water every few feet? I missed winning the
lot - did one of you get the photos? If so please share in our Yahoo photo
files. Later conversations with the Seller indicates these may have been taken
in Nebraska. It's a single track & barren landscape.
Gerald
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