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Example sentences for "steel rails"

  • It was agreed we should enter upon the manufacture of steel rails at Pittsburgh.

  • The price of steel rails when we began was about seventy dollars per ton.

  • The people demanded a home supply and Congress granted the manufacturers a tariff of twenty-eight per cent ad valorem on steel rails--the tariff then being equal to about twenty-eight dollars per ton.

  • One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.

  • A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

  • At that time the head of one of the greatest railroad systems of America dismissed a persistent salesman who had been trying to secure his order for steel rails, with the exclamation: “Steel rails?

  • Philadelphia was beginning to weary of capital expenditure, and demanded an output of steel rails at the earliest possible moment.

  • It now appeared suicidal to have stretched their resources to the limit of their credit, but not one of them had remotely dreamed that a few thousand tons of steel rails were to drag the whole structure to toppling destruction.

  • It shows the Element of Cost in one ton of steel rails in Eleven distinct establishments, the first Two being located in the United States, the next Seven in countries on the Continent of Europe, and the last Two in Great Britain.

  • A proof of the value and economy of steel rails is afforded by what has occurred at Chalk Farm station.

  • As renewals of rails are required on those parts of the system where the traffic is heavy and the trains are frequent, iron will be superseded by steel rails.


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