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