Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1914 — Seek to End "Creeping.” [ARTICLE]

Seek to End "Creeping.”

One of the most troublesome difficulties, experienced in the maintenance of railroad tracks is the tendency of the rails to creep in one direction. Creeping is due to wave action Induced in the rail by the passage of the heavily loaded wheels. It is much worse on tracks in which the travel is all in one direction, the creep being in the direction of the traffic. Much attention is being directed today to the arresting of this movement, and several forms of every efficient anti-creep-ers are upon the market. They consist, usually, of an inexpensive form of clip with end jaws which engage the base of the rail, the clips projecting below the base and fetching up against the adjoining ties, thereby locking the rail to the roadbed.