. Steel rails; their history, properties, strength and manufacture, with notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design . Fig. 62. —Snyder Steel Tie. (Am. Ry. Eng. Assn.) 96 STEEL RAILS Snyder Steel Tie. — (Fig. 62.) The illustration shows these ties in theConemaugh yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. There is also about onemile of these ties in use at Derry, Pa., on the same road, none of them being inthe main tracks. The standard type of the Snyder tie consists of a steel shellT3e inch thick, 8 feet long, 7 inches wide, 7 inches deep, and with the bottomopen. The interior of the s
. Steel rails; their history, properties, strength and manufacture, with notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design . Fig. 62. —Snyder Steel Tie. (Am. Ry. Eng. Assn.) 96 STEEL RAILS Snyder Steel Tie. — (Fig. 62.) The illustration shows these ties in theConemaugh yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. There is also about onemile of these ties in use at Derry, Pa., on the same road, none of them being inthe main tracks. The standard type of the Snyder tie consists of a steel shellT3e inch thick, 8 feet long, 7 inches wide, 7 inches deep, and with the bottomopen. The interior of the shell is filled with a mixture of asphalt and crushedstone. In 20 of the ties the mastic had disintegrated and fallen out of the ends ofthe ties after four years service. With this exception the Snyder tie has given verysatisfactory service in the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Conemaugh andDerry.
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