RECYCLING THE WOOD CROSSTIE: RESEARCHERS DEVELOP AND TEST LAMINATED PARTICLE TIE

With the prospect that up to 30 million replacement ties will be installed annually over the next few years, the potential of recycling rather than disposing of the scrap ties is being investigated. The Forest Products Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and University of Wisconsin have been investigating methods for reducing discarded cross ties to smaller pieces of wood, ultimately to discrete particles, and then for bonding the particles into boards and finally to laminate the boards to form reconstituted ties. Engineering tests are described.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This article is a joint effort of a group of engineers and technologists at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is maintained at Madison, Wis., in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin.
• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

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  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Authors:
  • Heebink, B G
  • Superfesky, M J
  • Geimer, R L
  • Chern, J
• Publication Date: 1977-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 26-30
• Serial:
  • Railway Track and Structures
  • Volume: 73
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-9016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; Laminated wood; Railroad ties; Recycling; Research; Waste disposal; Wood ties
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Old TRIS Terms: Cross tie disposal; Laminated cross ties; Wooden cross ties
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163783
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 1977 12:00AM