An Experiment With Steel Rails
One of its interesting experiments, noted by Mr Mertens in Valencia, Spain, is that of a cart track if steel flat top rails, which give such excellent results that a double track was to be laid the whole way to the port for heavily laden carts. The distance between the two iron tracks is about 1)4 yards, and a steel crossbar holds them at the right distance, the roadway between being paved. One side is used as an up route and the other for going down. The cost, though the steel rails are imported, is only about tOdols. per running yard, put down and ready for use. —New York Sun,
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 July 1916, Page 2
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