Where to find railroad track pieces

UIC60 Rail is mainly used for heavy load railroad. It is a very hot product in the International railroad tracks market. In France and Germany, it is widely used in high-speed railways. UIC60 rail has the characteristics of good ductility, high fatigue strength, and moderate fracture toughness.

Its good chemical property enhances the performance and keeps the railroad tracks in good condition to a certain extent. Used rail refers to the railroad track or railway track that once had used on busy lines such as heavy-haul mainline railway, now reused in light transport industrial areas.

It is mainly used for tons of temporary transportation lines, light locomotive lines, crane tracks, driving tracks that are laid in forest areas, mining areas, factories, and construction sites. Crane rail is specially used for laying tracks for cranes, such as railroad cranes, overhead cranes, gantry cranes, and other types of cranes.

It provides a smooth and strong runway for the cranes to move forward and backwards when operating heavy loads. Crane rail profile has the characteristics of lower height, larger head width, and web thickness.

DIN Rail is a type of crane rail used in overhead gantry and floor-mounted crane for port, wharf, shipyards, warehouses, and other manufacturers. It complies with the European DIN standard. This standard is specified to hot-rolled flat bottom crane rails type A. They are used to maintain the strength and stiffness of the joint, so that the rail has a uniform elasticity.

Most often, two railway fish plates are fixed on the either side of rail waist, and fixed by the fish bolt and spring washer. Rail clip is a kind of railway fastener that fix rail on the railway sleeper.

Railway fastener can resist the vertical rolling of wheel and lateral trust, and prevent longitudinal crawling of steel rail.

Rail brace is a component that install outside the steel rail. In addition, rail brace prevent railroad spike from losing caused by canting of rail. Railway track ballast is laid on the subgrade and under railway sleeper. Ballast is used to hide the railway sleeper. According to the laying of the position, ballast can be divided into two types, top ballast and bottom ballast.

In order to ensure the safety of high-speed railway operation, and improve the strength of the roadbed, ballastless railway track is widely applied in the modern railway track. If you need a stable, strong surface to modify or repair metals, a section of train rail will do. If your horses shoe needs resizing, set it up. Are you making some new metal sculptures for your yard?

Did the kids wreck your best spade? An anvil can be part of the solution. These anvils were made to be used as train track parts. After using cast iron, most of the railroad industry switched to steel rails. For non-railroad track applications, the choice between the two is up to you. Keeping the anvil inside will help keep it looking new.

Anvils come in many lengths. You can order them small enough to work on jewelry. You can also order them big enough to put in your workshop and pound heavy metal. I think it is especially important to hold these rail anvils down since they are generally lighter than conventional blacksmith anvils.

You don't see many Rail Anvils with hardy or pritchel holes. But to me, you really need them, the hardy hole at least, if you are going to do blacksmith work to any degree. Drilling Completed Filing Complete Here is a picture of three of my rail anvils in various stages of completion. I get the machine work done and then the grinding has to take place.

I tend to put that task off until it's nice outside. But you can see that I CAN make hardy holes in my railroad rail anvils! Close-up of three of my rail anvils What if you don't want to go to all that trouble of making the square Hole, one step at a time? A square hole purchased from: Green Bay Mfg. What about the Horn? You have probably seen a lot of rail anvils by now. We mill and grind the face flat. We sometimes make a hardy hole and maybe a pritchel hole.

We make notches in the base for retaining the thing. We taper one end, often to a point. What DO the horns on most rail anvils look like? What can you do with them?

Why are they there anyway? In my opinion, the horn should be a cone that is mounted sideways at one end of the anvil's face. Un-rounded edges mess up a curve.

Most rail anvils that I have seen, and for that matter, most of the rail anvils that I have made have a fairly flat top on the horn. And the section under the top of the horn has been simply left alone; the area under the "nose" undercut so you can get under it if needed. Leaving the top of the horn flat reduces the real utility of the anvil in my mind. So I am going to approximate a cone on my next rail anvil by filling in under the "ball" of the rail to produce a useful cone shape with a somewhat blunt taper.