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State health department presents awards for railroad tie cleanup
So, please tell us, how did they finally dispose of the cross ties?
NS has left huge stacks of old ties stacked every couple of miles on their line north out of Mobile to Selma, AL for almost two years now. They look pretty bad where the line runs thru the middle of several small towns on the line. I know they once sold them for landscaping or to be ground up for fuel. Must be common practice to leave them to rot now.
Watco, through contractors, has cleaned up a couple of very large tie piles in WI on the ex-WSOR Watertown Sub. One of the piles a couple miles east of Waterloo was 200 ft long and 15ft high and had caught fire twice in the last three years. Just wish they’d get rid of the pile of 100 or so junk ties next to my house on the edge of their ROW. It screws with my photos…and I’m sick of the woodchucks in the yard.
I could use some to build some retaining walls. The vendors around here charge an arm and leg for used ties.
Same question as Andrew. Some additional detail about what, exactly, “clean up” entails would be appreciated. The cynic in me thinks that “clean up” is a euphemism for “relocate the problem”. While moving them to a dump may resolve the immediate problems caused by ties discarded on the RoW or in a river, it only moves the leeching chemicals, vermin, and fire hazard to a new place.
To Andrew & Craig: The railroad ties in our area have to be taken to a specially designed landfill or to an incinerator that burns the ties at a high enough temperature to burn off all the creosote without creating more pollution than the scrubbers can handle.
To Andrew & Craig: The railroad ties in our area have to be taken to a specially designed landfill or to an incinerator that burns the ties at a high enough temperature to burn off all the creosote without creating more pollution than the scrubbers can handle.
To Andrew & Craig: The railroad ties in our area have to be taken to a specially designed landfill or to an incinerator that burns the ties at a high enough temperature to burn off all the creosote without creating more pollution than the scrubbers can handle.
So “What’s the matter with Kansas”
Let’s say in some generic dialect of the region,
“what we have here is a failure to regulate.”
Are these huge stacks of retired ties left to allow preservatives to leach into watertables used for agriculture.
How bloody stupid, but these states are represented on maps in vivid scarlet, signifying electorates whose majorities want small governments, certainly not encumbered by environmental or any other regulations.
Over some recent years, UP changed the wood to concrete ties, producing stacks, big long stacks of wood ties along the 100-plus miles of the “hill,” the “mountain,” the Sierra, or Donner Pass, not agricultural land.
They, the stacks, were removed by rail at job’s completion.
This is California, though…comprende?
So the railroads were given awards for doing their jobs?
Home Depot will buy all you got.
I find it humorous to say the least that an “award” was given for railroads doing something they were always supposed to do from the beginning. I’m curious if they were transferred to the Indiana RR since they are re-purposing them.
Who the hell cares…its their lines.
Who the Hell cares. RR property is just that. Do with it as you please. Too many ties on your R O W? Oh my …who cares. People! Go get a job. Work for a living instead of bitching for a luving.