Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891

Name: Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
Author: Various

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Science -- Periodicals

May    16, 1831.   Charlemagne     550       504    0   14     $1.85
  May    19, 1831.   Salem           963       744    2   14      1.85
  April   7, 1832.   Caledonia        38        63    3   07      1.85
  April  23, 1832.   Armadilla       525     1,000    3   21      1.85
  May     4, 1832.   George Clinton  624       986    2   14      1.85
  June 2-18, 1833.   Henry Kneeland  204       377    3   21      1.85
  May     8, 1832.   Cumberland    1,464     2,790    1   00      1.85
  June    2, 1832.   Gardiner        601     1,136    0   00      1.85
  June    5, 1832.   Globe           499       943    1   14      1.85
  June    6, 1832.   Jubilee          70       130    0   21      1.85
  July   18, 1832.   Hellen        1,080     2,004    3   21      1.85
  July   19, 1832.   Nimrod          937     1,745    3   00      1.85
  Aug.    2, 1832.   Emery           240       454    2   00      1.85
  Aug.    7, 1833.   Ajax            364       700    0   21      1.85
  Aug.   13, 1832.   Concordia       622     1,174    3   14      1.85
  Aug.   14, 1830.   William Byrny 1,120     2,138    1   07      1.85
  Aug.   20, 1832.   Mary Howland    932     1,755    3   07      1.85
  Aug.   23, 1832.   Pulaski         488       924    1   00      1.85
  Aug.   24, 1832.   Robert Morris 1,985     3,732    0   14      1.85
  Aug.   27, 1832.   Ann             506       961    2   27      1.85
  Sept.   3, 1832.   Montgomery    1,369     2,959    0   14      1.85
  Sept.   4, 1832.   Marengo         534     1,004    2   07      1.85
  Oct.   12, 1832.   Vestal          237       460    2   07      1.85

  This iron proved to be of such superior quality that after it was
  worn out in the track, the company's mechanics preferred it to new
  iron in making repairs. Some of this rail is still in use in side
  tracks. It is pronounced equal in durability to much of the steel
  rail of to-day. ]


FIRST JOINT FIXTURES.

Mr. Stevens ordered the first joint fixtures also from an English
mill, at the same time. The ends of the rails were designed to rest
upon wrought iron plates or flat cast plates. The rails were connected
at the stems by an iron "tongue" five inches long, two inches wide,
and five-eighths of an inch thick. A rivet, put on hot, passing
through the stem of each rail near the ends of the bar, fastened it to
the tongue and completed the joint. A hole oblong in shape, to allow
for expunctral contraction, was punched in the stem at each end of the
rail.


THE FIRST RAILROAD SPIKES.

The first "spikes six inches long, with hooked heads," were also
ordered at the same time. These were undoubtedly the "first railroad
spikes" (as they are known to the trade) ever manufactured.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891

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