. American engineer and railroad journal . pers. To facilitate this, their inner flanges are cut awayso as to have an inclined form, as shown at K K, tig. i. Therail then bears on top of the sleeper and rests on its top faceand also on top of the tie at I), tig I. The lips G on the lie andAon the sleeper ])revent the rail from moving either outwardor inward, and the ballast can then be very convenientlyrammed under the sleepers and under the bottom tlange of thetie-bar 6. All the parts, it will be seen, are made of wrought iron ; thelies are elastic in their nature, and from their form have an
. American engineer and railroad journal . pers. To facilitate this, their inner flanges are cut awayso as to have an inclined form, as shown at K K, tig. i. Therail then bears on top of the sleeper and rests on its top faceand also on top of the tie at I), tig I. The lips G on the lie andAon the sleeper ])revent the rail from moving either outwardor inward, and the ballast can then be very convenientlyrammed under the sleepers and under the bottom tlange of thetie-bar 6. All the parts, it will be seen, are made of wrought iron ; thelies are elastic in their nature, and from their form have an ex-cellent supp irt on the ballast. At the rail joints double tiesare used so as to hold the rails more securely and give addi-tional support to the sleepers. The company named aliove, whose oftice is in the Belz Build-ing, Philadelphia, propose to furnish these ties on long de-ferred payments, and thiidi that tliey can show that it will beeconomical for railroad compaines to substitute this form ofpermanent way for ordinary wooden .THE COLUMBIAN METALLIC RAILWAY TIE. •THE COLUMBIAN METALLIC RAILWAY TIE. Tiito American Railway Maintenance .Syndicate of Philadel-phia have brought out a new form of metal permanent waywhich they are now prepared to supply to railrcad companies,and which is shown b} our illustrations, of which fig. 1 is aperspective view, fig. 2 a side, and fig. 3 a sectional view. The structure consists of first, inverted trough-shaped sleep-ers, n. which are made in slu)rt sections and are placed belowand support the rails. These sleepers are held in their properlateral position by angle-iron ties, C. The sleepers are madeof the form shown, with sides which flare outwardly so as togive ample space below them to receive ballast and have suffi-cient bearing surface for the support of the loads they mustcarry. The upper faces of the ties have lips, E, which are punchedout of the metal and bent upward so to receive the flangeof the rail, as shown at E i
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