Application of Railroad Ballast from a Hopper railcar 

Very good, this is exactly what I needed. Now I know how my ballast should look when applicating new on my railway. Thank you!

That is how we did it on the BNrr 25 years ago behind the out of face Undercutter which followed the Concrete tie gang. 40 to 50 Coal cars to the mile(a days work). We would move the chains from car to car. Using a tie to level off the ballast to top of rail. We goofed once and tried to use a Caboose to Push the tie. The tie rolled and got caught under the steps of the caboose and derailed the caboose. Oh Well.

And that is one way to add a flat spot on a hopper car wheel....thump, thump, thump

We use to do it same way,tie & chain...then the company purchased a fleet of ballast cars where you could adjust the flow,and the pockets would dump the stone inside the gauge and outside,therefore no more tie & chain.We could dump 25 cars in 5 hours.

That is something different. Great and interesting, informative. Joe

Interesting poor man's ballast regulator with the wheels pushing the tie. I assume a tamper and proper ballast regulator will come along later.

Too much stone between the rails

And how often do you derail doing it that way? The Minnesota Zephyr engine derailed by a chunk of ice a block from where I live 15+ years ago. It was quite interesting watching Hulcher retail it. The Zephyr owner didn’t fix anything unless it was absolutely positively broken and he had no other choices.

There's sooo much ballast in the gauge. That regulator operator is gonna have a rough time

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Ballast regulator, tamper and dynamic track stabiliser and you are away!

And now all those Ortner cars are sitting idle in Round Rock. I'm guessing they've reached the end of their 50 year interchange life, as have the gondolas sitting in Georgetown?

Giant model rr?

Been there done that way to many times.

Thats spreading it way to thick.....no railroad would do that

where was this and what locomotive was used?

That's exactly how we ballast track in the coal mine. Lil smaller scale and more derailment though.

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Is that ballast sourced from Texas Crushed Stone?

In the 21 st century we have rail cars and track equipment that can do a better job at a much faster rate without place two lives in potential jepardy

No hard hats

Good way to use coal dumping wagons

Looks like a bit much to me. Not an expert either tho.

hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to discover getting a railroad job try Corbandy Simple Railroad Crusher (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my mate got great results with it.

Never ever saw a more humiliating way of ballasting a track. Is this the supposed advanced USA....??????

Third world railroading with minimum wage non-union workers who keep trying to not get hurt.