Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1914 — Non-Maghetic Rails. [ARTICLE]

Non-Maghetic Rails.

According to our contemporary, the Engineer, in order to accommodate the increasing use of track and signaling circuits on railroads, with the necessity for bonding joints, points and crossings, and separating rail sections to form the desired electric circuits, it is proposed by a German engineer to use non-magnetfc rails. The non-mag-netic track rails are made of nickel steel containing about 18 to 20 per cent, of nickel, and they are inserted at desired points in the ordinary magnetic track for controlling signals, brakes, etc., from - the vehicles. For light railroads, the whole of the track may be formed from these rails, which do not affect the action of the weak electric current used in controlling th? railroad.—Scientific American.