How To Use fishplate In A Sentence
- Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
- Another distributed splice bars, and a third the bolts and nuts for the fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
- Not a bolt nor a fishplate had been forgotten, and moreover John Castellan's operations from the air had reduced the destruction to a minimum, and the consequence was that twelve hours after the Kaiser had landed at Dover he found himself in his headquarters at Canterbury, whence the British garrison had been forced to retire after heavy fighting along the lines of wooded hills behind The World Peril of 1910
- The fishplate instead of the frog, and the steel rail in place of the good old snakehead! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
- A fishplate is a metal or wooden plate bolted to the sides of two abutting rails. Rediff.com
- From one of the holes for the fishplate bolts there dangled a rotten cord, and on the sand beneath this improvised yet apparently effective gallows lay a human skull and bones, quite white and beautifully polished by the action of sun and wind. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
- The derailment had happened when the flange of a wheel struck one half of a broken fishplate - a metal plate which holds sections of track together.
- February 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - A major train accident was averted in West Bengal Sunday when a railway worker spotted a crack in a rail track fishplate and stopped a train. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- Most of the rail was old chair iron, short, and consequently more time was used in making the change than would have been required had our work been on fishplate rail. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
