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Appendix No. 6. German Experience with Preserved Railroad Ties
With the increase in the employment of iron as a material for the superstructure of the railroad in modern times, it might appear that any discussion as to the durability of wooden railroad ties and methods of increasing it had lost much of its interest. But when we come to consider that even where the results of experiments with the iron superstructure have been most successful, the roads will still be constrained to employ wooden ties for a long series of years; that more than half of the sixty millions wooden railroad ties that have been laid on the railroads of Germany and Austro-Hungary have been subjected to no treatment to prolong their life ; and that millions of these rapidly deteriorating ties are annually replaced by others equally d e void of any means of preservation, while at the same time positive practical experience among the members of the German Railroad Union, extending over a period of thirty years, shows that several millions may be annually saved in the renewals of ties alone, we should have sufficient excuse for the occupation of valuable space in such a discussion.
Appendix No. 6. German Experience with Preserved Railroad Ties
With the increase in the employment of iron as a material for the superstructure of the railroad in modern times, it might appear that any discussion as to the durability of wooden railroad ties and methods of increasing it had lost much of its interest. But when we come to consider that even where the results of experiments with the iron superstructure have been most successful, the roads will still be constrained to employ wooden ties for a long series of years; that more than half of the sixty millions wooden railroad ties that have been laid on the railroads of Germany and Austro-Hungary have been subjected to no treatment to prolong their life ; and that millions of these rapidly deteriorating ties are annually replaced by others equally d e void of any means of preservation, while at the same time positive practical experience among the members of the German Railroad Union, extending over a period of thirty years, shows that several millions may be annually saved in the renewals of ties alone, we should have sufficient excuse for the occupation of valuable space in such a discussion.
Appendix No. 6. German Experience with Preserved Railroad Ties
Funk, Privy-Councillor (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 14 ; 306-321
2021-01-01
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