Hi all,
In going through Don Ball Jr.'s excellent book on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1940s and '50s I saw this neat photo of a T1 pounding the mainline, I think in Indiana, and instead of the usual stone ballasted roadbed it looked like brick or a type of masonry work. Can anyone tell me more about that? It looked like a neat change from typical railroad roadbeds.
Thank you in advance,
Alvie
It wasn’t on a stone arch bridge or viaduct was it? Did the caption specify where the photo was taken?
Hi Jamis,
It definitely wasn’t on any bridge! The photos were taken in Hanna Indiana where the Davis track-troughs are located, and the mainline looks real flat and straight (I guess part of the Fort Wayne race-track). There on pages 180-181 in the book.
Alvie
Very simple explanation. See if you can figure it out.
What is the engine doing in the picture?
That will tell you why the ballast shoulders are paved.
Ah! Hanna, IN. I’d say you just answered your own question. I’ll bet the track in question was indeed a track pan area.