Methods and equipment used in installation of butt-welded rail at Seaboard Coast Line; method involves use of rail threader featuring steel frame with built-in rollers on sides and bottom for laying strings 1323 ft long; ballast is cleaned from tie-plate areas by Kershaw cribbing machine; ties are prepared for new tie-plates by Nordberg self-propelled adzing machine; welded rail string, extending through leaders on Multikrane, is picked up and laid on new tie-plates as machine moves ahead; rail anchors are applied to base of rail by Racine Anchor-Fast machine; joints between long strings are thermit welded by Orgotherm method.
How SCL "threads" long rail strings into its track
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 165 , n 2
1968
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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