The Iron and steel magazine . 55 miles per hour is handled as comfortablyas if on tangent. The noise is more subdued than on woodenties, the gauge is uniform throughout and the surface and linecan be maintained with less labor than needed on wood ties. * The Iron Trade Review, December 21, 1905. Metallurgy al Notes and Comments 73 It also develops that the wear of the rail is uniform. Tins road Contemplates putting down of these ties in \()0(>. These ties have been in use on the Pennsylvania lines atEmsworth Station, near Allegheny, on the westbound passengertrack, and arc1 giving ve
The Iron and steel magazine . 55 miles per hour is handled as comfortablyas if on tangent. The noise is more subdued than on woodenties, the gauge is uniform throughout and the surface and linecan be maintained with less labor than needed on wood ties. * The Iron Trade Review, December 21, 1905. Metallurgy al Notes and Comments 73 It also develops that the wear of the rail is uniform. Tins road Contemplates putting down of these ties in \()0(>. These ties have been in use on the Pennsylvania lines atEmsworth Station, near Allegheny, on the westbound passengertrack, and arc1 giving very good results. The insulation requiredby the automatic signals gave some trouble in the spring, dueto imperfections, but this trouble was soon corrected by placingwooden blocks under the rails, and fiber bushings and washersaround the bolts. We have reproduced a photograph showingcondition of this track ready for winter, which shows it to bethe best in the vicinity. On account of the difficulty in holding track in line when. experiments were made with the English trough sections, it wasfeared the steel tie would be a failure, but the recent experimentswith the Carnegie I-beam section with indentations in the basehave proven that the fears were groundless. The steel tie has, therefore, made more progress in thelast two years than any other type of improved tie. Perma-nent as well as economical construction is demanded. Thepermanent feature has been developed, and a few more yearswill prove conclusively that steel tie construction is railways are rapidly developing new methods of con-structing their tracks in the busy city streets. The Cleveland Electric Railway, during the summer, laid600 Carnegie ties in concrete, and is very much pleased with 74 The Iron and Steel Magazine the constiuction. The Manufacturers Railway of St. Louishas installed this same section in a number of switches, withgood results. Physical tests of the tie show that a load of 170,000 po
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