By Peter De Keles

Author  Bio This video has prototypical movement of ballast to the worksite. And a lot of patiences and good back and knees.

Title:	Ballast Train
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Length	1:54	Release Date	11/22/2007
Overview	I feel guilty after watching this video. Meticulously placing ballast by small shovel full's versus my technique of dumping my 1/4 minus from a bucket onto my track and then brushing it. My knees started to hurt after watching this video. I think I used to be able to crouch that long. I just don't remember.

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Manual ballasting

I started off using hopper cars and after a half hour or so of loading three cars, driving back to the job site, dumping and spreading (similar to the guy in this video) I decided to skip the "prototypical" stuff and use a bucket and a cut-down paint brush. MUCH faster :-)

Daryll Smith - 08/25/2010 - 21:15

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