Contractor's Guide to the Building Code
... ties must be corrosion resistant . Strand wire ties must be at least No. 9 U.S. gauge wire with a hook embedded in the mortar joint . Corrugated sheet metal ties must be at least No. 22 U.S. gauge by 7/8 inch wide . Space each tie no ...
Some Facts about Treating Railroad Ties
... ties for the C. C. C. & St. L. Ry . Co. and allied lines . The experiment was made in the regular course of business , by weighing a large number of ties before and after treatment to ascertain the quantity of oil left in each tie ...
How to Tie a Tie
... ties . In the 1940s , Salvador Dalí also produced ties for sale . Artists can and do create beautiful neckties . Just mind the not - so - fine line between terrific and terrifically tacky . SPORTS TIES The English love ties with motifs ...
Contemporary Sociological Thinkers and Theories
... ties . Ties may be distinguished as follows : ( a ) simple or multiplex ( or multi- stranded ) ties ; the latter type of ties has two or more different contents ; ( b ) reciprocal or non - reciprocal ties ; the former type of ties ...
Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States
... ties for shipment to Lin- wood , Kansas , and on October 10 , 1907 , requested the railway to furnish cars for the loading of the cross - ties at such points . It was alleged that after furnishing three cars , which were loaded by the ...
Electric Railway Journal
... tie fastenings . These types are as follows : Type I consists of a concrete foundation , with steel ties , spaced 4 ft . center to center , entirely embedded in con- crete , and with a specially designed renewable clip and wedge for ...
Railway Age
... ties installed in 1906 , 0.2 per cent , or 1 tie , should have been the first retirement five years from 1906 , or in 1911. Following the theory outlined for the first annual retirement of the 494 second - cycle ties , the second annual ...
Electric Railway Handbook
... tie can be produced from a section is called a " pole " tie and it is hewed or sawed on two parallel faces . When made from a tree of a size that two or more ties can be made from a section by splitting , the tie is called a " split " tie ...
Special Agents Series
... ties shall be rectangular in section , of prismatic form , and straight and squared ; squared ; thus they will have ... ties . ART . 4. Dimensions . The ties , in order to be accepted , should have , except tol- erances admitted in ...
Journals of the House of Commons of Canada
... ties were scarce , you took undersized ties ? A. Yes , sir . Q. Because you did not want to check the supply ? A. Well , I had to go back and take them sometimes . Q. I understood that when you were short , but you were not short in ...
The Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer
... ties to each mile of track a year for re- newals . It is estimated that approximately 150,000,000 ties are required in a year by the railroads of the United States for renewals . The railroads are in the market for cross - ties , In ...
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen's Magazine
... ties instead of longitudinal timbers . " Let us add here , however , that still another controlling reason for the use of cross - ties in the pioneer days of railway construction was their very small cost . On most of the early American ...
Federal Register
... tie you may add as much as 10 cents per tie to the ceiling price of an 8 - foot - 6 - inch cross tie of the same size and species . ( b ) For seasoning cross ties or switch ties in preparation for preservative treat- ment , you may add ...
Handbook of Modern Electric Railway Methods and Practices
... TIES Use of Creosoted Ties - The Chicago , Ottawa & Peoria Railway Company uses 100 per cent creosoted ties and some of the results secured are interesting . One stretch of track 20 miles long was built in 1911 , using creosoted ties ...
The Timberman
... Ties in India By C. B. Spofford , Jr. , U. S. Trade Commissioner to India T THE average annual requirements of the In- dian railways is something in the neighbor- hood of 5,750,000 ties of which 2,700,000 are for broad gauge , 2,900,000 ...
Annual Report
... ties treated , cross 5 $ 8.09 Other new soft wood ties untreated , cross 184,646 New pine ties untreated , S. & Β . 195,309 ft . 195,815.79 8,858.35 Other new soft wood ties untreated , New pine ties untreated , S. & Β.1 . Second hand wood ...
Cases Reported
... ties sold to appellant through its agent , Williams . The number and price of said ties are set forth in the declaration . The defendant pleaded the general issue . The testimony for the plaintiff was that he sold to Williams as ...
Arboriculture
... ties , and that such ties would give almost twice the length of service of the best white oak ties , and they could therefore reduce their track force nearly one - half if they had all locust ties on the track . " Please observe this ...
Printers' Ink
... ties in great quantities in the lumber re- gions of the country , parceling them out according to the needs of the various systems . They have not attempted to supply all of the lines with all the ties they need . Every railroad , even ...