All of the Soviet-era concrete buildings in Cuba are collapsing because the
concrete used was such poor quality.
Tina
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, that's because I missed that one.
>
> I've never seen concrete ties that badly deteriorated. They haven't been
> around long enough unless, like a lot of the concrete you see in
> construction projects in that part of the world, it's very low-grade
> concrete to start with.
>
> And those rails definitely look abandoned.
>
> On 4/27/15 22:01 : , Goss,Steve wrote:
>
>> Hi, Y'all-
>> I'm surprised nobody else has remarked on the Railway shot.
>>
>> It looks like most of the ties are concrete, but in very dilapidated
>> condition. But there's one section (over a culvert?) that has been redone
>> with new wood ties. That's the opposite of what I see in the states, where
>> it's the wood ties that are old and concrete ties that are new.
>>
>> It's especially puzzling why the ties were replaced since the rail shows
>> that there have been no trains on this track in quite a while.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Goss
>>
>>
>> PESO:
>>
>> I finished another page of photos from Bayamo:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/cuba&page=26
>>
>> Click on each photo and hit Original to view large.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tina
>>
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