Rails

Examples

• Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• All the bridges over these had been destroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If extended in straight lines, it would build a track of two rails to the moon, and more than a hundred thousand miles beyond it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1804, at Pen y Darran, South Wales, a third engine was built, which was the first steam locomotive ever to run on rails. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The convertible rails, however, because of their rigidity, are more desirable than the convertible cushions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He realized that the road and the rails were almost as important as the engine itself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was a general rush to the carriages, and Mr. Huskisson, in trying to enter his carriage, slipped backwards and fell upon the rails. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Current was fed from a dynamo to the motor through a central third rail, the two outer rails being joined together as the negative or return circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The railway system of Great Britain was commenced without sufficient attention to the determination of the best width apart of the rails. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The rails form a semicircle at the post, with the ends of the arc pointing down the alley. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the Blenkinsop engine was found to be very unsteady, and tore up the tram-rails, and when its boiler blew up the owner decided that the engine was not worth the cost of repair. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The flanges are sunk flush into the top of the rail; thus the pocket iron spans the interstices between the rails. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I watched the ties and the rails for any trip-wires or signs of explosive but I saw nothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No special precautions were taken to insulate the rails from the earth or from each other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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