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Re: (erielack) Guard timber, rail, and rerailers

It depends on the era.

My reprint of PRR maintenance of way drawings (original is from 1910)  
shows rail as guard rails on bridges and trestles
My reprint of The American Railway (no original publication date, but 
circa 1889 or 1890, has a drawing on page 220 showing the South Norwalk 
drawbridge. it clearly has approx. 6x4 or 8x4  timbers (appear to be 
about as wide as a tie but only half as thick) outside the rails, 
between the rails on 1 track to form a walkway and between the double track.

I've never heard of guard rails in tunnels either

Frank Mellott




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