Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 458
-tom of the string-piece is supposed to be elevated about an inch abovethe ballast. It appears to me, that the elasticity insured to the railthroughout its entire length by this arrangement, will be found to dimi-nish to a very great extent the destructive pounding action which theengines exert… … to insure the requisite degree of elasticity, which evidently admits ofbeing varied to any extent which may be found desirable. The in-creased quantity of timber involved in this proposed plan is a manifestobjection to it; but experience only, can indicate whether the attend-Vol. XXXVIII.—Third…
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