Patent ID: 6292997
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: E01B,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of pre-plating a railroad tie, comprising the acts of:placing two plates on top of a wooden railroad tie having no plate-locating indicia;positioning the two plates each comprising a field flange comprising an inside field flange surface without spikes in apertures of the plates in respect to the railroad tie using a portable plate-locating jig to concurrently contiguously engage a control end of the tie and the inside field flange surface of each plate to establish the correct positional relationship between the plates and the tie;placing for the first tine a field spike and a gauge spike through apertures in each plate into the wooden tie and driving the placed spikes partially into the wooden tie while the jig maintains the position established by the positioning step;driving each field spike fully into the wooden tie until a head thereof is contiguous with the plate while the jig maintains the position established by the positioning step;insuring that each gauge spike is driven into the wooden tie until a head thereof is a distance above the plate ample to later receive a base of the railroad rail.