Trackwork - L.B. Foster Rail Products

1 Trackwork sales offices fabrication & distribution facilities headquarters District Sales Offices California Pennsylvania 32970 Alvarado Niles Road #736 961 Marcon Boulevard, Suite 445. Union City, CA 94587 Allentown, PA 18109. P: / F: P: / F: Georgia 415 Holiday Drive 130 Satellite Boulevard NE, Suite A Pittsburgh, PA 15220. Suwanee, GA 30024 P: / F: P: / F: International Illinois 7015 Fairbanks North Houston Road 125 Windsor Drive, Suite 122 Houston, TX 77040. Oak Brook, IL 60523 P: / F: P: / F: Mexico Missouri Hacienda Buena Vista 222, Villas del Meson 4201 NE Lakewood Way Juriquilla Queretaro 76230 Mexico Lee's Summit, MO 64064 P: / F: P: / F: Washington Oregon 3808 N.

2 Sullivan, SIP Building 7. 5335 SW Meadows Road, Suite 355 Spokane, WA 99216. Lake Oswego, OR 97035 P: / F: P: / F: 2. Trackwork Foster provides a number of different Trackwork Products , supplied from our facility in Niles, Ohio. turnouts can be supplied to AREMA, Industrial, and Class I Railroad Industrial standards in fully assembled panels or as components. We offer our panelized Trackwork in rail sections ranging from 12 lb. to 175 lb. Once the turnouts are panelized, they are labeled and numbered for installation, packaged and shipped to the customer to maximize the ease of installation at the job site and to minimize customer costs.

3 Foster offers a full array of accessories for sale as separate components. We can provide Manganese Insert, Solid Manganese Self Guarded, Solid Manganese Flat Top, and Rigid Bolted frogs. Foster can also supply non-reinforced, single, or double-reinforced switches designed specifically to carry light, moderate and heavy traffic. You can specify all individual components from fittings, switch rods, switch stands and replacement parts to complete switches with any selection of combination slide plates and braces, plain plates and acces- sories. Frogs can either be furnished to AREMA and American Mining Congress specifications or modified to your specifications for industrial sidings and in plant trackage.

4 All frogs are available with hook twin tie plates, flat Pandrol plates or without plates. Numerous designs of frogs and plating are available. Foster can also supply transition rails used to safely connect two different rail sections. We can also provide various designs of restraining rails. You can order light rail turnouts and accessories for 12 lb. through 85 lb. rail in any gauge. Where portability of trackage is required, some light rail turnouts and parts can be pre-assembled to provide this feature. Special Trackwork is also available on Foster CXT concrete ties for heavy and light haul applications and with our direct fixation fasteners for transit rail needs.

5 The convenience of single-source buying from Foster Company assures complete-package deliveries of every item needed, ready for installation. We can provide shipments of rail and Trackwork in any gauge for: Industrial Sidings In-plant Trackage Crane Runways Mine Haulage Systems Construction Temporary Trackage 3. turnouts turnouts Turnout Data The diagram illustrates the principal Actual Lead elements of a single turnout which consists Ps X X X. of a frog, a switch, two guard rails, straight Switch Length Straight Straight and curved closure rails, stock rails and Stock Rail Main Rail switch stand. Y1. Switch Y2 Y3 Y4 Guard Rail Curved 1/2"Point Switch rods, combination slide plates, Gauge Closure Rail Of Frog braces and accessories may be varied to Switch Switch Heel Frog (Or Actual Point).

6 Head Rod Back Rod Spread Joint A . meet your specific trackage requirements. Vertex Straight Toe Heel Foster Company can deliver a wide Distance Closure Rail Frog Length Connecting Radius variety of frog and switch materials that meet Rod Bent And Curved Guard Rail every track requirement from light, medium Stock Rail Curved Switch Throw to heavy traffic. Our warehouses, located Measured At Main Rail Head Rod Switch Pc throughout the , offer shipments of Stand light, standard, and heavy tee rail sections, crane rail, frog and switch material, tee and Pt crane rail accessories, and tools. Turnout Maintenance Regular inspections should be scheduled 6.

7 Locate and drill holes for heel blocks 12. Final line and tamp turnout. to maintain correct line, gauge and surface in each stock rail. Pay special attention 13. Inspect carefully before opening of turnout tracks. It is especially important to the above base block dimensions. turnout to traffic. that the gauge be kept as accurate as Position switch rails and install heel possible to prevent excessive wear on frog blocks. Pre-bent joint bar is provided and switch points and to prevent delays, to allow easy movement of switch rail and perhaps serious accidents caused after all bolts are tightened. Frog and Switch Installation by derailments.

8 Preventive maintenance The table on page 72 lists frog angles and programs will save expensive repairs and 7. Bring switch point, straight closure rail, gives, in a convenient manner, the mea- replacements. and frog to alignment. Spike frog and surements, gauge line offsets, angles and straight closure rail solidly to ties and other data required to install Foster Turnout Installation tighten joint at heel of frog. Standard turnouts . 1. Establish desired location of frog, cut 8. Join curved closure rail tightly to toe of Obviously, a change in the length of the existing rail, and position frog in this frog and to heel of switch.

9 To bring the frog will result in a slight difference in these location. (When bolted rigid or manga- curved closure rail to proper alignment dimensions, but for all practical purposes, nese insert frogs are used, guard rails measure the offsets from the gauge the figures can be adhered to. must be mounted opposite frog.) side of the stock rail to the gauge side of the curved closure rail (see offset Closures shown on Foster Standard 2. Mark position of each point of switch diagrams) and spike solidly at these Turnout Installation plans have been deter- making sure that sufficient rail remains points. mined to minimize the cutting of rails.

10 When ahead of the points to prevent joints in it is desired to use rails of different lengths, the stock rail area. 9. Bolt switch rods to switch clips and this is permissible and can be done without spike plates and braces in position. serious alteration to alignment. 3. After locating frog and switch, place head block ties for the switch stand. 10. Spike inside main and switch stock Level roadbed where necessary and rails to correct alignment by gauging replace track ties with proper length from curved closure rail. switch ties. 11. Connect switch stand to head rod of 4. Bend curved switch stock rail as shown switch and open switch until points on installation plan to allow a snug fit are equally spaced from main rails.