Ballast Color

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Since we're on the subject, where did VGN get their ballast and what color
was it? Thanks.

 

Rob Doorack

Guilford, CT 

 

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In the 1960's and 1970's up to the merger, the N&W used get cars and cars of
limestone from the Plum Run quarry near Peebles Ohio the Cincinnati District
for use as ballast.  The limestone was a very pale gray in color.  After the
merger the ballast stone came from a quarry owned (?) by the Southern.  This
was a gray, feldspar-looking stone.

 

I am reasonably sure that the Plum Run ballast was used system wide on the
N&W in those days.  It sure was used on Scioto Division track in abundance.

 

Gary Rolih

Cincinnati 

 

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What is the correct ballast color for the Pocahontas District or the Clinch
Valley District circa the '60s or '70s? 

Paul Mandelkern 
Winter Park, FL 

 

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