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I don't want to be jumped on but terms "angle bar'' and "joint bar" are both accepted terms for the same thing per the "Railway Track & Structures Cyclopedia" considered to be the "Bible" of railway engineering with joint bar being the preferred term in trade publications. I checked the AREA Manual (American Railway Engineering Association) and it's standards are for "joint bars". So you can called them either and be right.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:06 PM, Dave Lotz <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net> wrote: -------- Original Message --------
This reminds me of a safety poster done by CBQ's Tom
Walker. It showed two worried men pumping a handcar with a diesel
tailgating them. One of them something like "Are you sure you checked the
lineup?". I also witnessed (visually and on the radio) when a hi-railer
got on the tracks, and then on a bridge with an oncoming train headed for
them. The operator was frantically calling them to back up and get off the
tracks. When they saw the train they put it in reverse and complied.
Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado
On 1/13/2014 7:36 AM, archie hayden wrote: Hol, Thanks for bringing us up to speed on the motor cars. Pun intended. Since we are speaking of the motor cars that our fine brothers of the section were in charge of, old heads told me of several burial grounds along the right of way that harbored the remains of a wayward motor car who paid no attention to the lineups. I did not dig there to validate the story but often wondered if it was that easy to "cover up" such an incident. The only thing I ever dug up was a pot belly stove some section men told me about from the shelter at Lentner, Mo. Lo and behold it was still there about a foot below the cinders. Kind of rusty. Archie also kind of rusty. __._,_.___
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