Support for the rails in railroad tracks.
1He sat down on a railway tie, not because he was tired, but because he was at the end of his rope.
2Such impregnation methods double or treble the life of railway ties.
3Then the last scene will probably be Eskimos laying railway ties.
4The pressure-treated wood segment includes railway ties, utility poles, residential lumber and industrial products.
5We crossed a large stream where railway ties were being rafted down the river.
6They quietly walked toward it, scrambling over old railway ties that had never been laid.
7He takes the railway ties several at a time, all the while calling out encouragement to Jesse.
8The Forestry Service under the Engineer Corps has cut the greater part of the timber and railway ties required.
9Railway ties, however, cost nothing.
10The elephants, it was clear, would have to swim, since walking the naked railway ties was impossible for them.
11Tom, playing a minute ahead of his rival, kept finding his ball in the bunkers he had shored up with railway ties.
12I built little huts of discarded railway ties, and lit camp-fires, for I was fearful of the crawling things I saw by day.
13We also pulled out two fellows who had nearly drowned crossing a piece of water on waterlogged wooden crosses made of old railway ties.
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