International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, Pa. : The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 451
he track. If kinked, i. e., bent lat-erally as shown in Fig. 494, they may be straightened by 1040 TRACK WORK. nicking the flange of the rail with a cold chisel on the con-vex side of the rail at the point A where the bend is thesharpest. Then, laying the rail on its base, a few sharpblows with a… … Fig. 495. a and d, which fit over the head of the rail. The curvedbar c, which unites these hooks, is drilled at its crown, andthreaded to receive the screw d. The cross-bar c unites withthe two hooks a and /?, and serves as a guide to the screw <•/.Force is applied to the screw by means of the…
Railroad engineering
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