. Steel rails; their history, properties, strength and manufacture, with notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design . Fig. 09. — Kimball Tie Showing Spiking Plugs. (.\m. lly. Eng. .\ssn.) SUPPORTS OF THE RAIL 101 1905. The track is kept in good condition, but several of the ties have developedcracks which may be due to improper application. Fig. 68 presents further ex-amples of the Kimball tie, and Fig. 69 shows a tie in good condition, takenfrom the track. In this tie the spikes entered the spiking plug and the con-crete was not damaged, as was found to be the case in most of t
. Steel rails; their history, properties, strength and manufacture, with notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design . Fig. 09. — Kimball Tie Showing Spiking Plugs. (.\m. lly. Eng. .\ssn.) SUPPORTS OF THE RAIL 101 1905. The track is kept in good condition, but several of the ties have developedcracks which may be due to improper application. Fig. 68 presents further ex-amples of the Kimball tie, and Fig. 69 shows a tie in good condition, takenfrom the track. In this tie the spikes entered the spiking plug and the con-crete was not damaged, as was found to be the case in most of the ties which. Fig. 70. — Percival Concrete Tie. (Am. Ry. Eng. Assn.) developed cracks. Ties were not rusted to any extent in the center of the trackbetween concrete ends. In 1912 there were about sixty Kimball ties in successfuluse in the track of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, the ties having been installedin 1905. Percival Concrete Tie. — (Fig. 70.) The figure shows ties which wereused on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad for about two years. They were 1T)2 STEEL RAILS removed from the track in 1908 for the reason that the ties failed. The figureillustrates very plainly how and where these ties failed. The Sarada and Adriatic Railway ties, given in Figs. 71 and 72, illustrateconcrete ties used on the continent, and Fig. 127 shows the combined wood andmetal ties used in France.
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