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Spring spikes or elastic rail spikes [25] are used with flat-bottomed rail, baseplates and wooden sleepers. The spring spike holds the rail down and prevents tipping and also secures the baseplate to the sleeper. [ 26 ]
During the 1930s, a German engineer, Max Rüping, developed a resilient fastening to secure a rail to a sleeper. [11] In 1933, Rüping went into business with an American importer of Creosote named Oscar Max von Bernuth (O. M. Bernuth), founder of Bernuth-Lembcke Company. At the time, the fastening was known as the Elastic Rail Spike.
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
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Rail spikes; S. Screw spike; Spike driver; Spike maul; Spike puller This page was last edited on 19 September 2010, at 02:05 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Both bear showy flowers in spring, which are followed by prickly or spiny capsules that split open in fall to release 1 or 2 nuts inside. Unlike actual chestnuts, the nuts of Aesculus species are ...
The spiker moves to a tie that needs spikes inserted. The spiker uses claws to grab the tie and hold it in place. Workers use a joystick to direct the rams to the locations where spikes are to be inserted, and then activate the rams to drive the spikes into the rail. The spiker releases the tie, and moves on to the next tie to repeat the process.
Network Rail has been fined nearly £4m after two workers were struck and killed by a train following safety failures. Gareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael "Spike" Lewis, 58, were hit by a Great ...