The Stone Quarry and Mill in Palo Seco, process at the moment the mineral used in the capital reparation of the 120 meters railway affected in the zone of Sabanilla, Taguasco in Sancti Spiritus, where the last two tank lorries and the caboose of a freight train carrying cement derailed.
After the rehabilitation works carried out by brigades of the Railway Union supported by forces of the Youth Labor Army, it was restored with limited speed the movement of trains from kilometer 356 of the called Central Line damaged in the accident on August 24th.
Due to the strength and toughness of the existing gravel on the deposit, workers and managers of the Palo Seco quarry actively involved in producing the ballast forming the seat layer of the crossties on the railroad, considered the only suitable of the country to support the weight of goods and passengers in transit through.
The industry maintains three production lines that define its purpose but prioritizes macadam stones and concrete to repair the two thousand 600 meters affected by the accident happened at an intermediate point between Guayos and Siguaney stations in the province of Santi Spiritus.
To reopen the Central Line 1000 crossties were first replaced from the more than four thousand to be replaced, the land was leveled and damaged rails and tracks were changed; works that ranges around half a million pesos.
The immediate and continuous overproduction of stone in the quarry of Palo Seco will speed up the capital finish of the repair and will allow the restoring to normal speed through which the trains are allowed to move- 100 kilometers per hour for motor trains; 80 kph for travel trains with locomotive and 70 mph to freight trains.