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Is 1940 the oldest rail on a very busy mainline?
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I was amazed by something I saw this evening. heavily traveled rail and in this curved section was "Nippon Steel" rail dated 1988, where the inside edge of the outside rail was worn so bad that it looked like someone had ground a 30 degree chamfer off the load bearing corner of the railhead. Not only that, but all along this worn area were pieces of rail "peelings about 2 feet long, half an inch wide, and about as thick as a playing card, laying on the ties where they had sheared off. <br /> <br />As the track came out of the tightest radius, into a more gradual sweep, the angled area worn away straightened back up, but had a "mushroomed" lip that was being deformed off the inside edge. <br /> <br />All this, and there was a flange greaser nearby, but evidently not doing enough. <br /> <br />There is a piece of rail that won't last 60 years, I feel fairly sure.
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