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Description
After the ballast train has dumped the fresh crushed stone to repair a poorly drained section of track the sectionmen spread the ballast before tamping.
X400 is a multiple tamper which tamps crushed rock ballast firmly around ties...[eliminating] nearly all hand tamping. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad's magazine, "Maine Line," v. 4 #5, p. 13.
About This Item
- Title: Railraod Sectionmen Spreading Ballast, Littleton, 1956
- Creator: Richard W. Sprague
- Creation Date: 1956
- Subject Date: 1956
- Location: Littleton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 20 cm
- Collection: Richard Sprague
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Railroad construction & maintenance
- Railroad ties
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company--People
- Railroads--Design and construction
Other Keywords
- B&A
- ballast
- Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
- Bangor & Aroostook RR
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
- Bangor and Aroostook RR
- railroad
- ties
- track repair
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