An Anvil Made from N&W Rail

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Abram,

Regarding N&W rail weights, a search of the digitized N&W Railway annual reports reveals the first mention of three early rail weights as follows:

    1899 annual report: 67-pound worn, resawed.
        (1902 and 1903 reports added, "...used in replacing lighter rails.")
        (1904 and 1906 reports added, "used for guard rails on important bridges.")
    1902-1904 annual reports:  75-pound steel rail...laid main track.
        (1909-1911 reports changed to: resawed. Durham District.)
    1902 and later annual reports: 85-pound laid main divisions.

There was no mention of 80-pound rail in N&W Ry. annual reports.

Gordon Hamilton
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  Subject: An Anvil Made from N&W Rail


  Attached is a PDF file containing four photographs of an anvil made from rail.  The anvil was made for my father about 1947 or 1948, on (I think) the Shop Track at Shaffers Crossing.



  I sent the photos and measurements to a rail expert for evaluation.  Even though the head of the rail has been milled off to give a flat surface, he reported that the rail appears to be 80 or 85 pound rail of a section identified as "PRR."



  So I have three questions:



  (1) Has anyone seen another anvil of this sort made by the N&W?  (Wondering if they might have been a "standard issue" item.)



  (2) Did the N&W ever use 80 pound rail?  (I never saw 80 pound rail.)



  (3) When did the N&W begin installing 85 pound rail?



  -- abram burnett
   



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