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18785	Various	Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Final Report of Special Committee on Rail Sections, Paper No. 1177			.txt	text/plain	3868	240	72	OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON RAIL SECTIONS.[A] As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Association to the Rail Committee of The American Railway no specification for Open-Hearth Steel Rails, and in order to "We recommend that the present Specifications for Steel Rails be acceptable they were, as the members of all Rail Committees were present rails rolled, of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, and put in service "SPECIFICATIONS FOR STEEL RAILS.[E] "The percentage of carbon in an entire order of rails shall average The section of rail shall conform as accurately as possible to The standard length of rail shall be 33 ft. (_a_) Drop tests shall be made on pieces of rail rolled from (A) Two pieces shall be tested from each heat of steel. defect, the top rail from each ingot of that heat shall be rejected. "(_b_) For Bessemer Steel the Manufacturer shall, before the rails	./cache/18785.txt	./txt/18785.txt