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From: "Kenneth Martin kmartin537@surewest.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:03:03 -0700
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There is an article on burnt clay ballast in Vol 56 of "Railway Age Gazette" 
page 251

http://books.google.com/books?id=NGA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq=burnt+clay+ballast&source=bl&ots=hlHPjlV3Vj&sig=EQ3p6mChhPIG-RG0tCJ0x47KdKk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6G1_U8y_G4b_oQTVxYDACA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=burnt%20clay%20ballast&f=false

or 
http://tinyurl.com/nn2rb84

Ken Martin

On May 23, 2014, at 7:45 AM, mdecker@gwtc.net [CBQ] wrote:

> 
> The Q, or more properly, the B&MR, had pits west of Lincoln for burning clay. 
>  They dug, IIRC, three long trenches with tracks in between.  Then, they 
> filled the pits with layers of clay, wood and coal and set fire to it.  when 
> it was done burning, they had something like pottery.  They'd bust it up and 
> use it for ballast.  There was a section about it in one of my old track 
> books.  I can't find it today, it's not in "Notes on Track" or "The 
> Trackman's Helper" both of 1904 vintage,, but it might have been in an ICS 
> text.

> Mike




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