[CBQ] Re: Alignment Charts in BB#53 Addendum

["GLEN glenehaug@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Nelson:

L.S. might have meant limestone, but on the alignment chart you are looking for Burlington it could also mean 'light surface'.  This would normally mean that the track was surfaced with no additional ballast added, or a minimum amount of the same ballast.  Limestone is too soft and is not very good for ballast, and I would guess that the Q would have preferred slag over limestone.

Glen Haug

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Nelson Moyer npmoyer@hotmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2017 6:19 AM
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Subject: [CBQ] Alignment Charts in BB#53 Addendum

 

 

The alignment chart for MP 205-206 (from the Bridge to Main Street in Burlington) list three ballast types over the years, chatts 1943, L. S. 1957, and slag 1960. I assume L. S. is limestone, and I know what slag ballast looks like, but what is chatts, and what does it look like? I ask Steve Holding, and he thinks it’s unscreened crushed limestone, but if that’s true, why would the alignment chart list chatts in 1943 and L.S. in 1957 if they’re the same thing?

 

Nelson Moyer

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Posted by: GLEN <glenehaug@msn.com>

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