. The Street railway journal . buckle. The Seitz tie, manufactured by Seitz Bros., Tiffin, Ohio, is avery good steel tie, made on the plan of an inverted channel. Theties are very strong. They have been in use there about twoyears. The ballast is laid the same as with the Lorain SteelCompany tie. The Carnegie steel tie, which is an eyebeam with a 4^-in. topand 8-in. bottom flange and SJA ins. deep, is also used by ties are spaced 6 ft, and the concrete is tamped 4 ins. underthe tie and 10 ins. along and under the rail. Tie rods are placedover each tie. These ties I believe to be the str
. The Street railway journal . buckle. The Seitz tie, manufactured by Seitz Bros., Tiffin, Ohio, is avery good steel tie, made on the plan of an inverted channel. Theties are very strong. They have been in use there about twoyears. The ballast is laid the same as with the Lorain SteelCompany tie. The Carnegie steel tie, which is an eyebeam with a 4^-in. topand 8-in. bottom flange and SJA ins. deep, is also used by ties are spaced 6 ft, and the concrete is tamped 4 ins. underthe tie and 10 ins. along and under the rail. Tie rods are placedover each tie. These ties I believe to be the strongest and mostdurable yet placed on the market. All objections to steel ties buckling and deteriorating seem tohave been removed by the present shape of the Carnegie steel care must be taken in cross-bonding when using steel ties,or in fact any tie. The action of the current in passing fromone rail to the other through the tie rods and steel ties causesmore or less eating away of the ties and rail where they are in. TABLE—CARNEGIE STEEL TIETies spaced 10 ft. apart: 10 ties, per 100 ft., at $ each $ yds. concrete, at $5 per yard Total $ Ties spaced 6 ft. apart: 16*5 ties, per 100 ft., at 50 cents each $ 17 yds. concrete, at $5 per yard Total $
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