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Floyd Gordon's Collection
 
4/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Floyd Gordon
Dates:10/8/2012 - 12/31/2012
Album Info:rail dates
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133 lbs NIPPON 2000 far rail with head damage.
Title:  133 lbs NIPPON 2000 far rail with head damage.
Description:  Rail is being replaced with 141 lbs NIPPON rail. Burnt River Canyon UP Huntington Sub.
Photo Date:  10/8/2012  Upload Date: 10/26/2012 7:25:33 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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133 lbs NIPPON 2000
Title:  133 lbs NIPPON 2000
Description:  NIPPON = NIPPON Steel (Japan). 3=March of 2000. VT = vacuum treated. RE = American Railway Engineering Association. HH = Head hardened. Note damage along lower edge of rail head.
Photo Date:  10/8/2012  Upload Date: 10/26/2012 6:27:35 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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141 lbs Nippon 2012 replacement rail to be placed on curve in place of 133 lbs rail.
Title:  141 lbs Nippon 2012 replacement rail to be placed on curve in place of 133 lbs rail.
Description:  NIPPON = NIPPON Steel (Japan). 6 = June of 2012. VT = Vacuum Treated. AB = ?? UP Huntington Sub.
Photo Date:  10/8/2012  Upload Date: 10/10/2012 12:48:58 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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133 lbs NIPPON 2000 rail with rail head splintering on curve
Title:  133 lbs NIPPON 2000 rail with rail head splintering on curve
Description:  Both rails are to be replaced with new 141 lbs NIPPON 2012 rail. Ttrack ties are concrete.
Photo Date:  10/8/2012  Upload Date: 10/26/2012 6:29:49 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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View along UP right of way of old 133 lb rail to be replaced by 141 lb rail along ballast
Title:  View along UP right of way of old 133 lb rail to be replaced by 141 lb rail along ballast
Description:  Location is @ 1 mile above (west) of Huntington OR on cruve. Ties are concrete. Both 133 LB and 141 lbs are made by NIPPON Steel of Japan. UP Huntington Sub
Photo Date:  10/8/2012  Upload Date: 10/26/2012 6:32:30 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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133 lbs NIPPON 1999 rail by wheel flange oiler
Title:  133 lbs NIPPON 1999 rail by wheel flange oiler
Description:  NIPPON = Nippon Steel of Japan. 5 = month of May. VT = Vaccum Treatment. RE = American Railway Engineering Association. HH= Head Hardened??
Photo Date:  12/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/11/2012 1:53:00 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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Newly laid 141 lbs NIPPON 2012 rails on curve along Burnt River
Title:  Newly laid 141 lbs NIPPON 2012 rails on curve along Burnt River
Description:  Both rails of 133 lbs NIPPON rail has been replaced by new 141 lbs per yard rail. NIPPON = Nippon Steel of Japan. 5 = May of 2012. VT = Vaccum Treatment use to remove hydrogen gas from the steel.
Photo Date:  12/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/11/2012 1:55:30 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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UP wheel flange oiler
Title:  UP wheel flange oiler
Description:  UP Huntington Sub.
Photo Date:  12/31/2012  Upload Date: 12/11/2012 3:02:24 PM
Location:  Huntington, OR
Author:  Floyd Gordon
Categories:  Track
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