They are rail anchors, intended to limit expansion of rails to small increments; sometimes it doesn't work as intended and you get big kinks.
Dave Engle --- On Fri, 12/28/12, Tom Hawley <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tom Hawley <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Tie Plates for Rhett To: [email protected] Date: Friday, December 28, 2012, 1:28 AM ----- Original Message ----- From: pickycat95 http://www.atlantictrack.com/The%20Source%20Book.pdf Though they don't have those hooked bars that you see on both sides of ties about every other tie. What are those? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That took a long time to load, but worth it. An excellent source of real track technology. It is strange they didn't show rail anchors. Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
