. The development of the American rail and track . Bull-Headed Hail—StrasbourgRailway, 1858. ( From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) Fig. 93. Bull-Headed Rail—Avigxox and Marseilles Railway, 1858. (From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) that the wear of the rail in the chairs made the lower surface rough,this practice was abandoned, and a larger portion of the metal has sincegenerally been put into the head to give increased wearing surface. Asection of the rail designed with this end in view, and in use on theAvignon and Marseilles Railway in 1858, from a drawing in the collec-

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. The development of the American rail and track . Bull-Headed Hail—StrasbourgRailway, 1858. ( From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) Fig. 93. Bull-Headed Rail—Avigxox and Marseilles Railway, 1858. (From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) that the wear of the rail in the chairs made the lower surface rough,this practice was abandoned, and a larger portion of the metal has sincegenerally been put into the head to give increased wearing surface. Asection of the rail designed with this end in view, and in use on theAvignon and Marseilles Railway in 1858, from a drawing in the collec-tion, is shown in Fig. 93. English railway managers continue to lay the ubull-headed rail inchairs in a very similar manner to what was done fifty or sixty yearsago.

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