Drilling the mainline

Back in the fall of 1995, I was called at Argentine yard in Kansas City for a work train on the Emporia Subdivision. Our job was to drill into the sub-roadbed and pump a lime-slurry into the soil to help stabilize the roadbed.

 

Here we are on Olathe Hill west of Kansas City taking a break as a westbound train charges up the hill past us. We'd work both Olathe Hill and Wellsville Hill that day before calling it quits.

Done