New facility has materials-handling system by means of which new and relay rails are handled by push-button controls; welding machine permits electromechanical lining of rail ends before welding; plant is designed to receive and weld new rail arriving in 39-ft lengths or jointed relay rail arriving in strings 1482 ft long.
Push-button plant cuts butt-welding costs
Ry Track Structures
Railway Track and Structures ; 64 , n 2
1968
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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