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Deodar is the most important timber tree providing soft wood. It can be easily worked and it is moderately strong. It possesses distinct annual rings. It is used for making cheap furniture, railway carriages, railway sleepers, packing boxes, and structural work. Gambar Gmelina arborea: Pale yellow 580 kg/m 3: 980 lb/cu yd Central India, South India
A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...
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Y-shape steel sleepers (left), versus straight steel/wood sleepers (right) Y-shaped steel sleepers (German: Y-Stahlschwellen) are a type of railway sleeper designed to support railway track with a rail fastening system at with three points of contact.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: 6 500–505 Lounge 1950 Pleasure Dome: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: 2 5550–5551 Lounge 1949 Strata-Dome: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: 10 50–59 Lounge 1952 Super Dome: General Motors: 1 Coach 1947 General Motors: 1 Diner 1947 General Motors: 1 Lounge 1947 General Motors: 1 Sleeper 1947
Pre-war experiments with long welded rail lengths were built upon, and in the years from 1960 long rail lengths were installed, at first on hardwood sleepers but soon on concrete sleepers. For example, the first long welded rail (almost 1 mi or 1.6 km) on the UK's East Coast Main Line was laid in 1957, just south of Carlton-on-Trent , resting ...
Southern Indiana Railway: MILW: 1897 1910 Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway: State Line and Covington Railroad: C&EI: 1877 1877 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: State Line and Indiana City Railway: PRR: 1887 1901 South Chicago and Southern Railroad: Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway: NYC: 1889 1915 New York Central Railroad
Darlington is located in northeastern Montgomery County. Indiana State Road 47 runs along the southern edge of the town, leading southwest 9 miles (14 km) to Crawfordsville and east the same distance to Thorntown. Lafayette is 24 miles (39 km) to the north, and Indianapolis is 45 miles (72 km) to the southeast.