Railway Tires
The steel wheels of steam locomotives and other older types of rolling stock were usually fitted with steel tires or tyres (in British English, Australian English and others) to provide a replaceable wearing element on a costly wheel.
Read more about Railway Tires: Installation, Causes of Damage, Non-steel Railway Tires
Famous quotes containing the words railway and/or tires:
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“The tires slowly came to a rubbery stop.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)