Re: SMH - Firm's worst nightmare: rail chiefs don't want its sleepers

["Ron Bennell" <ron.bennell@qr.com.au>]

QR is also using steel sleepers for some new construction. They are even
being produced for turnouts. A major advantage is that the height from
formation level to rail level is about the same as for timber; concrete
needs an aditional 200-250 mm

Ron Bennell

MarkBau1 <markbau1@aol.com> wrote in article
<1998052405273500.BAA29629@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
> <<<<<Then why is RSA renewing wood for steel sleepers in the down main
south of
> Picton??>>>>>>
> 
> Steel sleepers??? I thought railroads gave up on steel sleepers years
ago?
> 
> Mark.