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Making Ribbons of Rail Southern’s Central Rail Welding Plant 1973 Soft Cover
Making Ribbons of Rail Southerns Central Rail Welding Plant 1973 Soft Cover
Soft Cover 3 hole punched with loose map Welded rail in main track as of September 30 1977.
Copyright 1973
By Information Services, Atlanta
10 pages
At the heart of the rail modernization program is Southern's Central Rail Welding Plant and Track Assembly Plant, located at Inman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia. This facility produces continuous welded rail from new rail sections, as well as from suitable reconditioned rail.
In the above photograph, 7.36 track miles of welded rail, in continuous quarter-mile 'ribbons', moves aboard one of Southern's five special rail trains. At the installation site, strands of welded rail will be reeled off two-at-a-time to replace the jointed rail.
When the job is done, another stretch of Southern Railway track will be missing its familiar 'clickety-clack'. In its place will be the smooth riding, durable, continuous rail required for efficient operation of a modern railroad. Among its many advantages will be a track life at least four times longer than the conventional jointed rail.
The jointed rail, removed from the field still bolted together in quarter-mile lengths is loaded on the same rail train and returned to Atlanta for disjointing and reclamation. Track panels are also pre-fabricated by the Atlanta facility for quick on-site installation of turnouts, industrial sidings, yard track or other medium duty track installations..
Supplying the rail and track needs of a progressive road like Southern is a big job. The pictures which follow show how this is done.
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