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(New page: Same as felloe plank. Also the inner steel rails between the main rails of a railway track. A guard rail on a roadway, so placed as to catch the felloe of a wheel and thus prevent ...) |
(Based on Glossary of Bridge Terminology; Chapter LXXX of J.A.L. Waddell's Bridge Engineering (New York: Wiley, 1916)) |
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Same as [[felloe plank]]. Also the inner steel rails between the main rails of a railway track. A guard rail on a roadway, so placed as to catch the [[felloe]] of a wheel and thus prevent the vehicle from striking the [[truss]]. In wide bridges, a felloe plank is often placed midway between the trusses, to prevent vehicles passing from one side to the other. | Same as [[felloe plank]]. Also the inner steel rails between the main rails of a railway track. A guard rail on a roadway, so placed as to catch the [[felloe]] of a wheel and thus prevent the vehicle from striking the [[truss]]. In wide bridges, a felloe plank is often placed midway between the trusses, to prevent vehicles passing from one side to the other. | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:48, 24 April 2007
Same as felloe plank. Also the inner steel rails between the main rails of a railway track. A guard rail on a roadway, so placed as to catch the felloe of a wheel and thus prevent the vehicle from striking the truss. In wide bridges, a felloe plank is often placed midway between the trusses, to prevent vehicles passing from one side to the other.