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Show NEW PATENT RAILROAD TIE BEING PROMOTED BY SEVERAL RAILROAD EMPLOYES. Local Officials of Harriman Llncp See Merit In the Steel Tie Great Possibilities of Invention. Conductor Wlnslow and several other oth-er employes of the Rio Grande road are promoting a new patent in tiic shape of a pressed steel tie which. It is thought, may he made to take the place of the wooden article used for that purpose. The steel tie is said to weigh ' about 160 pounds and can he manufactured in large numbers at a cost of $1.74 and will last a lifetime. The new tie is about the width of the average tie. The rails are clamped firmly in the steel clasps, while steel lug3 hold It firmly in position at all times. The new tie has been examined by Superintendent Manson and other Harriman officials and pronounced a success In every way if the new article ar-ticle can be produced at the cost claimed by advocates of the new patent. |