. The development of the American rail and track . Fig. Kail, Great Western Railway ofEngland, 1858. (From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) Fig. 66. Great Western Railway of Canada, 1855. (From a drawing in the IT. S. National Museum.) of the _CL rail with a metal shoe running the full length of the rail towhich it was bolted (thus adding to its strength), as used on the Great If any of the rail was laid, I fail to find the fact recorded. 682 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. Western Railway of Canada, is shown. Both of these figures are fromdrawings in the collection. The XX rai
. The development of the American rail and track . Fig. Kail, Great Western Railway ofEngland, 1858. (From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) Fig. 66. Great Western Railway of Canada, 1855. (From a drawing in the IT. S. National Museum.) of the _CL rail with a metal shoe running the full length of the rail towhich it was bolted (thus adding to its strength), as used on the Great If any of the rail was laid, I fail to find the fact recorded. 682 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. Western Railway of Canada, is shown. Both of these figures are fromdrawings in the collection. The XX rail was in use in several of our Southern States during thewar of 1861->65. It was fouud that the _Q_ rail was almost certain to fail when laidon cross-ties, and for this reason roads, notably the Nashville and Chat-tanooga, that used it always favored the superstructure with the railbearing on a longitudinal stringer instead of a Fig. Saddle-Back Bail, 1856. Laid Without Supports. (From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) Fig. 67 is from a drawing of Barlows saddle-back rail in the col-lection. This rail has an extreme width of 13 inches and were designed todispense with the use of wooden ties or stringers in track construction. The rail was laid in broken stone with tie bars 10 feet apart. Ninehundred miles of this type of rail were laid in England prior to 1858, amile or two also were laid on the Reading Railroad in the United 5 and 6 miles of this rail, closely riveted together, were laidin England in 1856 and were in use for several years without experi-encing any difficulty from expansion.*
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