rail ties
Wooden track supports
Rail ties are the heavy wooden or concrete beams laid perpendicular to railroad tracks, supporting and spacing the rails.
Also called railroad ties, crossties, or sleepers (British).
The ties distribute the weight of trains across the track bed and hold the rails at the correct gauge: Workers replaced rotting rail ties along the mountain route.
- sleepersUnactivated spies or surprise hits
- trackPath or monitored route
- woodenMade from timber
- wooden beamsCut lumber for framing
- creosoteCoal-tar distillate for preservation
spikes · gauge · crossties · timber · gravel · locomotive · train · steel · fasteners · tarred · weathered · old west · freight · switching · yard · maintenance · replacement · concrete
- Rail Yardboxcars, flatcars, tank cars, locomotives, cabooses
- railway trackstrack bed, railbed, trackbed, ballast, crushed stone
- rail yardsswitchyard, marshalling yards, receiving yard, yard crew, yardmaster
- trackworktrack maintenance, gandy dancer, track bed, tamping, surfacing
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
track component function
rail tiesrails
Guiding metal bars
steel rails · train tracks · guard rails · ballast · rail bed
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