Re: (erielack) CWR on the EL(2)

["Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>]

Thermite welds were used when I was involved in building track for the new 
Waterfront Line built for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 
in '95-'96.  Stick rail was delivered by ship into the docks at Cleveland, 
unloaded and pulled to their respective locations (since the Waterfront Line 
ran along the edge of the Dock property).  I don't recall the exact lengths 
as delivered, but alot of welding followed once pulled into place...

Also, Conrail had a dedicated facility at Locknow(sp) near Harrisburg that 
essentially welded 1/4 mile lengths of salvaged stick rail into welded rail. 
When I was still living in NJ and a member of Tri-State chapter, we had a 
tour of the facility sometime in the 1980's...I don't know if the facility 
is still operating, but was pretty interesting at the time...

Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384
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From: "Michael Dye" <luxpan_@_hotmail.com>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) CWR on the EL


> Wouldn't be at all surprised at it being done in the field. Somewhere 
> around here, I have one of my Grandfather's slides, showing a field weld 
> being done with a 'thermite pot'. (Beats me. In the Navy, we used 
> thermite, but we didn't construct things with it!
>
> Michael Dye, ELHS #1516
>
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>>From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
>>
>>I wonder where the rail came from? I doubt the EL had funds to go out and 
>>buy new cwr, so it must have been relay. I'd be surprised if EL didn't do 
>>some of this the cheap way (the way they did almost everything else): 
>>field-welding.
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