1. RAIL STOCKS 2. RAILS MOUNTED ON REINFORCED CONCRETE TIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION
ApprovbiggAtrisre 20.031,08/0 ,i?k;RD P 8 2-0 L?1,875R1, 2,0?99 1300 0 1 -2
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SUBJEM I. Rail Stocks
2. Rails Mounted on Reinforced Concrete Ties
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DATE DISTR 20 May 1952
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OF THE ULIITEII ST717E3,1701114 THE REARMS OF trns I. ECTIONS 7P7
Aral 794. OF Tin t.i S. CO)!. AS ADMIRED ITS TRARSISISSIOTI on oEvaL.
F ITS CORTE:107S IS OR RECEIPT URAUTRORIZED PERS011
BRED GT mori TIC REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PEOHISITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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a, Socks of old rails 1:ept oy the 3tae irilroods are of lialted usability
2ost of these rails have only scrip value but as there is an acute shortage
of new rails, thc stoe of ole. .ails must be sorted again rnd sLair at
great cost, in order to fled rail material which can be recond-Aioned for
further use. Post of these reciai.med'Pat17., because of exce,:.-i;ive near and tear,
can be used only on third class railrogd tracks.
b.. Of the usable rails, 151000 meters or 675 tons must be kept available for
er.111.-ency cases by order of the SC se that only 120,000 mote. 's of rails or
43950 tons remain available for e,yrrent track .maintenance operations. (See
Tabulation. I below). This means ::hat tnly approxnatc1y 15,000 :7eLers of
rails Will be at the disposal of each of the eight regicral.railrod head?.
quarters. As there are apout 20 21.12eront types of rails, and4as at least
the most comonly Used stmdard.rie,closin length of eoch.of these tA-)es
must oe.kept on hand for the replacement of broLen rails and for. urgent re?
pair work, only about 125. Meters of each of the 20 'types, or rails would be
actually available for current maletenance work in. each-, of the eight rail?
road districts. This quantity ts barely adeellate. The rails listed. in
'T bu1. tio II below are rconditioned for further use In 92, a total
of 573,oOO eters of rall3 v:aim reconditioned. On 17 ::;eptember 1951, the.
Dtrectorate Ceneral ordered the ragdonal railroad heaquarters to have rails
of Tabulation IV under five-nictcr; in length scrapped. (1) This. order will.
affect about Ito,000.,:.et of rails or about 1,400 tons In addition,
a:Iproximately 59,600 rete:!'s of rails, or 21190 tons, listed in Tabulation
I] and Iwill Lc ti4-ner!. 4ver to ratioralivoad industrial. .plants to bn used for
buildinc purposes. Stocks of old but still usable rails decreased from
over 30,000 tens availabi on. 31 ,oe)7.ber 1951 to 21,201 on filanO at the
end of 1:3venter 1951 in the couz'se cy,:: 1951, a total of 1,.2131,661. meters
of rails) 1.,e ,an estimated 50,700 tons, were in stalled Compared with
these requrements, tie stocks of Old rails .which are Still serviceable
or capable of Loin[ reconditioned are very low.
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c. Tabulnton o 2or olj serviceable rails ip 192 roplace-
ntnt
130 er o trck e 2(0 teory 1-3 17:0..1s, 10,!400 tans
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c0' tr 13 "
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2,200 S7.71ACI:e: 20C Li:. 9,000 "
'Total: 39,200 tons
trq-..-ulat: On thU ricks, rail:3 and svdtches crnnot be repl.nr.:cd or
rain-l.aiTo6 as .sced1:1(2C m oba,sis of avallr'tlo stocks of old,. ust:iblo
rails .3. .'jr1 rcd fov nsw projoct!:i to bo ecuted in 1952 were
not ire L,!-1 be ?11 at on,
.P.coom:drz to t,7ou7at on::; 1,y InCviCual. reLionil railroad1.,-,;nr.quarters
at U.e enc.', of Octc+or th 110 Aocks of used ratls wero ?twailable:
?Tabnlat'on L(:,lor-,Tconlo rails)
7,Ja.r-r?OVOpt40 -YPe . i?ea-1.7
1a.
(23 k??,/nio?ter) (3,!: 't-er ) Cf.2 1.,../?w!ter) (L9 kevettr)
2,202
(66)
7771 37,117
(3,166) (1,74)
Tabulation II, (:r.ls jiir.)able of
.1Lecomi;,lon.11Z--
t2,126 62,016
(2_381)
10,03,0
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71(.1 Total
7) 33
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69?6C5
(3,43S;)
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To,bulation III, (eatory h Rails,
6uitab10 only Yinor Tracks)
27,144 12,94 ? 13,095 63,233
(250) ',530 (62t2) 2,107)
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Ttibulation IV, (usale for .ton-
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27,320
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(1 9,259 )
149,;.;62
(5,232)
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A .7.:ethod Of, 7:Ount-Ln-L of -qails on ..4-Anforced Go=ete Ties.
The nozA for 11 ti1 L n o reiLfo!-ce concret es is
Of .?o t n I 1 th: minfc.rced concrete he tlreviously ? P8t0d.
we' cc; at i C pc 17,ecureC: to eitLer dirkit%-' or .vir.1 n
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