there is no need of railroad tie plates. The track bed (made by stone and gravel) and wooden sleeper act as the support to steel rails. Fastening steel rails to railroad ties is mainly by dog spikes.

The railroad spike, with an offset head, is mostly used to secure rails and base plates to railroad ties in the track. In 1832, Robert Livingston Stevens invented the first railroad spike and it is ...

The 5 1/2-inch (14-centimeter) spike is being offered by an unidentified California resident who has owned it since 1983. The Alaska Railroad, originally constructed, owned and operated by the ...

Harding hammered the golden spike into a bridge in Nenana now known as the Mears Memorial Bridge.The “ambitious” single-span trestle bridge over the Tanana River closed the Alaska Railroad’s ...