. Steel rails; their history, properties, strength and manufacture, with notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design . k No. 2 of the line from Mouchard to Bourg, trav-ersed by the express and fast trains, comparatively with oak cross-ties employedon the P. L. M. system, and with composite cross-ties (wood and steel). (SeeFig. 127.) Finally, a special track for experiments was laid at the Bourg * Revue des Chemins de Fer, July, 1897. f Deformations of Railroad Tracks and the Means of Remedying Them. G. Cuenot, 1907,New York. SUPPORTS OF THE RAIL 173 station, and there was tested,
. Steel rails; their history, properties, strength and manufacture, with notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design . k No. 2 of the line from Mouchard to Bourg, trav-ersed by the express and fast trains, comparatively with oak cross-ties employedon the P. L. M. system, and with composite cross-ties (wood and steel). (SeeFig. 127.) Finally, a special track for experiments was laid at the Bourg * Revue des Chemins de Fer, July, 1897. f Deformations of Railroad Tracks and the Means of Remedying Them. G. Cuenot, 1907,New York. SUPPORTS OF THE RAIL 173 station, and there was tested, at the same time as the two types of cross-tiesmentioned, the metallic cross-tie in use on the State System. The wooden cross-ties were oak, creosoted, and of the following dimen-sions: Length 2 m. 60 (8 ft, in.) Width 0 m. 22 to 0 m. 25 ( in. to in.) Depth 0 m. 14 to 0 m. 15 ( in. to in.) The composite cross-tie was composed of a metallic skeleton in the formof an inverted trough, provided in the interior with two symmetrical blocksof wood solidly fixed, and leaving between them an empty central ; - - -»»--- 4 fcno^-JP<f3 r ; j i« c^ i. S % s, |j; * (_ ■■;; B ! I HALF UPPER PLAN
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