[milwaukee-electric] Re: More TM Rail Exposed

[Scott Greig]

My experience with rail pulled from streets after many years (Chicago streetcar rail and CNS&M crossing rail in Kenilworth come to mind) is that by the time it's pulled up the rail is so deteriorated that any roll marks on the web are long since obliterated.

Speaking of old TM rail, is that little stub of Lakeside Belt Line track just east of South Lake Drive still in place?  It was embedded in the bike path and ran a few feet east to what would have been the plant fence.  It included part of a switch, as I recall.

--- On Sun, 9/27/09, Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net> wrote:

> From: Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net>
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: More TM Rail Exposed
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Date: Sunday, September 27, 2009, 10:53 PM
> Larry Allan and
> list:   Very interesting.     
>   
> 
> To those of you who are fortunate enough to encounter TM
> rails at such
> pavement openings, please carry a measuring tape. 
> Then measure the
> width of the rail base,  then measure the height of
> the rail.            
> 
> A table of rail measurements will reveal the weight of the
> rail.
> Obviously, flanged rail, commonly used on curves and in
> crossover
> trackwork, will weigh more due to the extra material in the
> flange.         
>    
> 
> It is the simple T rail from which the weight is
> determined.  Where
> lengths of T rail are exposed, the weight may be visable on
> the 'web',
> as rolled at the foundry.         
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> fwiw ..... Don L.      
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