Pulled the railroad anvil out and cleaned it up

jamesp
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Pulled the railroad anvil out and cleaned it up Feb 9, 2016 8:24:31 GMT -5

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Post by jamesp on Feb 9, 2016 8:24:31 GMT -5

Feb 7, 2016 16:34:27 GMT -5 metalsmith said:

Great finish. Who'd have known so much went in to railroad design.

Good info on the tool. Might be good for cabbing too.

Perhaps the constant traffic of heavy wheels harden rail road track.

Another section had fractures throughout the surface, was useless.

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Pulled the railroad anvil out and cleaned it up Feb 11, 2016 15:07:38 GMT -5

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Post by metalsmith on Feb 11, 2016 15:07:38 GMT -5

Feb 9, 2016 8:24:31 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Feb 7, 2016 16:34:27 GMT -5 metalsmith said:

Great finish. Who'd have known so much went in to railroad design.

Good info on the tool. Might be good for cabbing too.

Perhaps the constant traffic of heavy wheels harden rail road track.

Another section had fractures throughout the surface, was useless.

Of course it must be work hardened by repeated stressing - which is probably why it fractures and they have to do track inspections to find these before the scene gets ugly!

It's not a typo ... it's English!

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Pulled the railroad anvil out and cleaned it up Feb 11, 2016 15:17:49 GMT -5

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Post by jamesp on Feb 11, 2016 15:17:49 GMT -5

Feb 11, 2016 15:07:38 GMT -5 metalsmith said:

Feb 9, 2016 8:24:31 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Perhaps the constant traffic of heavy wheels harden rail road track.

Another section had fractures throughout the surface, was useless.

Of course it must be work hardened by repeated stressing - which is probably why it fractures and they have to do track inspections to find these before the scene gets ugly!

Yes, the repeated stressing hardens and fractures.
The metal recycler gets pieces of track from county jobs metalsmith. This recycler has a basic contract with the county.

What surprises me is how much of the track is fractured so badly.

It was not removed from service due to reject from inspections, but for road projects where they have to remove small sections of in service tracks.

metalsmith Cave Dweller Member since October 2012 Posts: 1,537	Pulled the railroad anvil out and cleaned it up Feb 11, 2016 15:25:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by metalsmith on Feb 11, 2016 15:25:20 GMT -5 I'm sure you can find google just as well as I can but I found this an interesting read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_inspection
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