Some Facts About Treating Railroad Ties, Vol. 3
Author: W. F. Goltra
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781333082826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Some Facts About Treating Railroad Ties, Vol. 3: Essentials for Effective Work in Timber Treatment In France, where the creosoting of railroad ties is an old industry, heavy treatment has been the rule, forcing into the timber all of, the, creosote that it would take. In England, also, the creosoting of railroad ties is an old industry but, on the average, a somewhat smaller quantity of creosote per unit volume of timber has been used than was common practice in France. In comparisons of the practical results obtained in the two countries it has always been reported that the life obtained from creosoted ties in France was longer than in England, purely and simply because of the larger amount of material used per unit of the treated timber. If the long-standing results of experience in these countries have been correctly represented, and if any significance attaches to them, we fail to see the logic in much of the supposedly experimental work that has been done in this country. If the life of the timber depends upon the amount of preservative injected, as long-time experience seems to teach, then scrimping the material might be expected to result as scrimping usually does in other engineering work, no matter under what name or disguise the art is practiced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
