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Show HEAVIEST RAILS EVER MADE The Lehigh Valley R. R. has ordered some steel rails that will weigh 136 pounds to the yard. These are the heaviest rails ever rolled for a steam railroad, it is said, and the railroad men the nation na-tion over will watch with interest the tests to which they are subjected. sub-jected. At the rate the weight of rails t r f is increasing there is no telling e when the limit will be reachel. ( Twenty years ago few railroads t had rails as heavy as 60 pounds. Most of them had 40-pound rails. Some roads in the South and West t still had iron rails. f Now there are various roads with rails of 100 pounds or a little jyl heavier. In a few years we may I see the 150 or 200 pound rail. f. oo L |