Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — English Steel Rails. [ARTICLE]

E nglish Steel Rails.

In tearing up a siding on the Straitsville division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the other day, the section men discovered that several of the rails had been made in 18(53. Subsequent investigation revealed the fact that these rails were part of a lot that were bought in England during the war, at a cost of $125 per ton in gold. The rails were still in very fair condition and for light motive power would last ten years longer.