The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-06
Santa Fe will Build Tie Pre-
serving Plant at BeIen-
viii Be Designed to Use Any
Process
ERECT TWO CYLINDERS
Ties Treated With California
Crude Oil Stand Tests
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles

The AEchisou Topeka & Santa F'e
railway viii erect a new tie preserving
plant at BeIen. New Mexico This point
90 miles south OF Albuquerque. is the
junction Of the BeIen cutoff the Coast
Lines division and the 4 T & 3 F.
railway proper The plant viii have
two cylinders and viii be designed 70
work any particular process The IN
mediate Intention is 70 treat with u1'a
Rueping process. a modification OF the
creosCta process which has heretofore
been described IN these columns, and
with crude Gil II viii Ee similar N Ca
pacity Of cylinders and other respects
TO that completed at SOmervIlE- Tex
about year aga. as per account III the
Railway and Engineering Review OF
April Il 1906 page 29I- The building
will be OF reinforced concrete, and the
material yard viii have about nalr the
capacity Of that at SCmerviIle- At tnIs
plant only Arizona and New Mexico
mountain pine viii be treated USING
creosots for piliug and bridge uIuper
and California crude oil for treating
ties
Experiments with crude oil TOR treaE-
ing timber have been conducted by the
a T & 3 + railway for several years
The theory OF the use OF this material
rests upon the presence or near ano
moisture as conditions essential 70 the
fungus growth which causes decay II
timber II occurred to the timber ex-
perrz Of this road that If they could, oT
taking thoroughly aIr-SeaSCrec WooU II
which condition the cells or pores
would he Cou1uara lively empty then
block them I'd with some hard SUD
stance SUCH treatment should stop me
moisture getting into the Woec am
thereby prevent decay There Il ore
special kind Of California crude OH q
very low gravity, which has about .
utzr cent aSphaItI1u base and the pal
4uce light ellis the greater part OF
which vaporiZe On being neaIec- II Cle
fail or 1861 Il few New Mexico. Arlzola
ard Texas pine ties we're selected thor
q,ITrE,Tvz z-z-zrref and urearad with this
oil. heated 10 $50 degrees F. and forced
in under 4 pressure ct 150 pounds 70 the
SQUARE inch The different Ties CooA 1p
from four gallons minimum 10 e1enG
gallons maximum OF the OIL IN TIE
sa-fv gUrfug Of 1902 they were placed II
an sxperirr1,artaI track on the G511L- COL
CT do & Santa F'e railway oetWeth
Cleveland and Pelican, wt1ere an orta-
rarv I1hfoIIy pine tie viii not lasI ever
two years, or an uT1LreaI=d lShis ieh- &c
mich over three years.
In November last when Presi-enC
RfDFex TIee President kenor1cA ana
otrer Santa F7e officials were n1aklls
their annual Inspection, Chey Persold--
" examined these ties ana round -
AZ the end of four years and nine
r-ar-nz ire ofT-treatsd ties were per-
feetIv sound One was taken euL-
-4vve,= through the middle and under
rFa rail base and found az SOUND II the
Interior as though il. had only been
month IN the track Since then exam
frarfou has been made OF others "
herring and they al showed up very
val 50 that the santa Fe people nave
,-ararr7rir,ett 10 adopt this treatment for
-7,as while con ti1uirg with creoSOGe Tor
So bridge timber and piIEE
This oil at ordinary uenIPeraIIr Is
TfIxa rr7oIasses. but when heated II De-
cones perfectly duifz- 50 that there Is
~, C+f%~fcI1Irv in getting all the penetra-
r4.7rr necessary. and by applying a hz1r
vacuum at the close it seems 10 sea-
the pores. 50 that after the les are a
Isar7 our Of the cylinder they can De
E,r11l=7saf= without any difficulty and
varyr little OF the oil seems % run OUT
0r those in the Texas track S11r1lcieFlI
iii F7as 0rzs1 20 the outside OF the tie
70 practically make 4 thin aSpha-C
covering
The supervision Of this work comes
r4r,r5ar Mr. E o. Faulkner manager q
ire tie and timber department or the
S4rrH Fe4 system