Sentences with phrase «railway ties»

They've also found larger meaning in their work; crucially, these companies are passionate about they're doing — even when it's manufacturing railway ties.

Based in St. Laurent, Que., Stella - Jones makes railway ties and utility poles, 82 % of them southward - bound, says 5i Research's Ryan Modesto.

In the 1840s, his work had helped to launch the timber «pickling» industry, in which railway ties and telegraph poles were protected from decay by dipping them in creosote, made from coal tar.

Railway systems are designed for a 50 - year lifespan, which is calculated on the integrity of the materials used, and most railways are built along one of two common track systems: rails set on railway ties (U.S.A.) or sleepers (UK), which are then «ballasted» into beds of rock or gravel; or rails that are set onto concrete slabs.

When Keaton did stunts playing pickup sticks with railway ties to clear the track in front of a moving locomotive, say, he actually did the stunts.

The Field of Emotion furthermore includes a newly commissioned installation of railway ties that recall the traumas brought about by railways around the globe, as well as a film installation.

The Arco lamp spotlights the side tables made from reclaimed railway ties.

The railway ties used as foundations by Édouard did not withstand the effects of the bad winter frosts.

source So this Fall, the plan is to excavate the front and back yard, we are taking out all the railway ties and old plants in the backyard, everything but the two trees there are being pulled out.