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Old way of cutting railroad rail
JWB replied to EWCTool's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
In the early 1970’s while working as a gandy dancer for the Rock Island Line, the boss would have us score the rail with a cold chisel and then he would run ice water over it for 5-10 minutes and one hit with a spike mall and the rail was cut clean as a whistle. We did it numerous times when replacing rail after a derailment. Worked every time.