Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1914 — 26,122 “Rail Failures” Annually. [ARTICLE]

26,122 “Rail Failures” Annually.

According to the rail committee ol the American Railway Engineering as Bociation there were 26,122 rail break ages for the year ending October 31, 1912. The statistics cover 182,000 miles ot railway with 14,132,982 tons of rail (10,156,395 Bessemer, 3,580,021 open hearth, 396,026 tons special steel oi special sections). The reeults of wear tests are quoted in the report, but they are conflicting and in no case point to marked superiority of one, type of Bteel, or indeed of the special steel over normal rail steel. In this the wear tests agree with the breakage records', although the latter are far too few to permit • conclusion even as definite as this.— Engineering News.