Suggests that rails are being stressed beyond service limit. (From report by W. P. Borland, chief of Bureau of Safety of Interstate Commerce Commission of an investigation made by James E. Howard, engineer-physicist of Commission.) Also Ry. Rev., vol. 63, no. 24, Dec. 14, 1918, pp. 843-847, 11 figs.


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    Title :

    Transverse fissures cause rail failures


    Additional title:

    Ry. Age


    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 65 , n 23


    Publication date :

    1918


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Interior transverse rail fissures

    Dudley, P.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1916


    Transverse fissures the result of rail gagging

    Dudley, P.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1915


    No shatter cracks in rail -- No transverse fissures

    Woschitz, J.F. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1940


    Transverse fissures

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1916


    No shatter cracks in rail -- No transverse fissures

    Woschitz, J.F. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1940