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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
The rails were in pretty good condition and got better as we approached the Chicago area. I was walking along the platform which must be a quarter mile long in Lafayette and was disturbed to see that only about 20% of the spikes actually touched the rails, the others had backed out as much as 4".
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Yeah, that seems pretty sketchy and dangerous. Have the railroad inspectors been furloughed of late?
Around here they seem to be moving to cement ties where the rails are clipped rather than spiked down.