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What Is Coal-Tar Creosote Used in Wooden Infrastructure?

What Is Coal-Tar Creosote Used in Wooden Infrastructure?

Sep 12, 2023 | Benefits & Use, History

“Creosote” Used in Wood Preservation, Explained In the United States, the term “creosote” is pretty confusing. There are many substances referred to as “creosote,” which makes it hard to figure out which type has been used for over a hundred years to preserve wood...
Railways and Crossties Connect Baseball and Fruit to America

Railways and Crossties Connect Baseball and Fruit to America

Jul 20, 2023 | Benefits & Use, History

By the early 20th century, a shared national identity was emerging in America. Fresh fruit and baseball would become a part of this new reality, fueled by the railroads and crossties that increasingly connected Florida to the rest of the nation.  In the first...
Coal-tar Creosote Puts Trees to Work, Bringing Energy and the Internet to Millions

Coal-tar Creosote Puts Trees to Work, Bringing Energy and the Internet to Millions

Apr 24, 2023 | Benefits & Use, History

Believe it or not, there is an internet meme about utility poles. It “went viral” in 2018 because it was both funny and thought-provoking. It was just a thought posted in a Reddit forum, lacking any visuals: “Telephone poles are trees that cleaned up and got a job.”...
New Jersey’s “Ghost Tracks” Crossties Tell the Story of America’s First Railroads

New Jersey’s “Ghost Tracks” Crossties Tell the Story of America’s First Railroads

Mar 29, 2023 | Benefits & Use, History

Every good “ghost story” tells the life story of the person whose soul is stuck between this life and the after-life. The audience learns his or her trials and tribulations, and usually what “unresolved issues” are keeping the spirit circling its childhood home. The...
Canada’s Grand Trunk Railway: Unifying People and Building Economies

Canada’s Grand Trunk Railway: Unifying People and Building Economies

Sep 30, 2022 | Benefits & Use, History

The construction of railway systems that could withstand the severe northern climate came at a pivotal point in Canada’s history and played an important role in fostering Canadian unification and independence from Britain. Entrepreneurial drive, technological...
How Creosote-Treated Crossties Made the World’s First International Railroad Possible

How Creosote-Treated Crossties Made the World’s First International Railroad Possible

Sep 12, 2022 | Benefits & Use, History

A History of the Shortline Railroad from Montreal to Portland, Maine In the early 1800s, shipping remained the dominant way of transporting goods in the United States, yet the harsh environment of the northeast posed serious challenges to commerce. Temperatures there...
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