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Title: Report on the use of metal railroad ties and on preservative processes and metal tie-plates for wooden ties
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Tratman, E. E. Russell (Edward Ernest Russell), 1863-
Subjects: Railroad ties Railroad tracks Wood Preservation
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Dept. of Agriculture, Forestry Division
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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be morecareful iu ordering out further supplies of steel sleepers until we have l)etter knowl-edge as to their durability, and that we can not do wrong in sultstituting for these,for the present, a cast-iron .sleeper. The only diflicnlty about this is the increasedfirst cost as compared with the steel sleeper of the present weight, and in the costfor land carriage, which would be fully 50 per cent more in the case of the cast-ironsleeper. These two items, first cost and cost of carriage, are, I freely concede, veryimportant factors in the decision, and in the case of new lines, on which the pros-pects are uncertain, and, where cheapness in first cost is es.sential, the steel or eventhe cheapest wooden sleeper would be preferred. But for renewals on our older lineswe might safely require the adoption of the cast-iron sleeper. The weight of cast iron per mile for such sleepers would l)e, for broad gauge, about200 tons. UNITED STATES PL AT E 1 NEW YORK CENTRAL g< HUDSON RIVLR RAILWAY.
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