Tie plate
A forged steel plate used between the rail base and the tie top to help spread the load.
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Tie Plate
The steel shoes in which the rail sits when spiked to a wooden tie.
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Tie plate. A metal plate at least 6 inches wide and long enough to provide a safe bearing area on the tie, with a shoulder to restrain outward movement of the rail.
A tie plate (US) or baseplate (UK) in railroading is a steel plate used between flanged T rail and the crossties. The tie plate increases bearing aera and holds the rail to correct gauge.
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Grooved Tie A cross tie, which has been machine-gouged across its top depressions into which ribs on the bottom of the tie plate may fit.
A cylindrical threaded steel spike with a special head, designed to be turned with a special wrench into holes bored in ties, to secure rails or to act as a tie plate holder in tie plates with holes intended for this use.
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Base plate (UK), tie plate (US): An iron or steel plate used to spread the weight of rail over a larger area of sleeper (tie) and facilitate a secure, low maintenance, fastening with bolts or clips. It derives from the former Rail chairs.
Some of that growth is being taken up in the tie plates, since they are not a precise fit with the base of the rail. That's typically what you're seeing there.
Portable, power-operated machine designed to adze the rail seat on ties to provide an even bearing surface for tie plates.
AEI
See Automatic Equipment Identification.
There're several hundred feet of meticulously constructed hand laid track, on tie plates even, track side signals changing colors when trains roll past and sound effects coming from every nook and cranny.
OTM Other Track Material -- materials other than ties and rails, generally refers to spikes, tie plates and rail anchors Overhead Line Haul Road Any railroad or railroads between the originating line haul road and the terminating ...
Very relistic plastic molded details including spike heads and tie plates, but ties are unrealisticly sloped. Flat copper center rail is less visible. No need for additional ties. Curves are semi-absurd tightness. Gar-Graves - Excellent.
 See also: Track, Section, Point, Train, Rail
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