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- From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
- Subject: Re: High Speed Rail Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.040339.1565@ee.ryerson.ca>
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- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:03:39 GMT
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- jim@specialix.com (Jim Maurer) writes:
- >
- >Nowadays they weld it at rail welding plants into long
- >strings that are transported on special cars. It looks real strange
- >to see a welded rail train going around a curve. Just shows how
- >flexible rail really is.
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- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that rail is "rolled" from
- the steel mills in 1/4 mile length right onto the special cars to
- transport them as you describe.
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