. Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review . ible continuous, and the joint whichbrought this desideratum about was placed on many thousands ofmiles of tracks and is still widely used. The next important achieve-ment was the designing and manufacture of the Anchor Tie Plate,which is imposed between the rail and wooden tie. preventing the latterfrom being cut or abraded by the action of the rail. This plate doesnot cut into and destroy the tie, but presses into all the top fibers of thewood, thus effectively resis
. Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review . ible continuous, and the joint whichbrought this desideratum about was placed on many thousands ofmiles of tracks and is still widely used. The next important achieve-ment was the designing and manufacture of the Anchor Tie Plate,which is imposed between the rail and wooden tie. preventing the latterfrom being cut or abraded by the action of the rail. This plate doesnot cut into and destroy the tie, but presses into all the top fibers of thewood, thus effectively resisting the constant gauge-widening action ofthe track independent of the lateral resistance of the spikes. A verticalabutment extending the whole width of the plate outside the rail pre-vents the rail from cutting the spike, and absolutely precludes thespreading of the rails, so. destructive and fatal to life and plants—one on Chicago avenue, this city, and the other at May-fair—are now running to their full capacity in the manufacture ofthese splice bars and tie plates, which are used by many of the lead-.
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