Rack Rail - section
Object detail
Description
Section of steel rack rail. One side along the length is smooth whilst the opposite side has eleven rack "teeth". There are six holes along the sides of the section. The rack rail has been painted silver of which there are worn sections.
Classification
TRANSPORT Railways
Measurements
L1300 x W20 x H110 mm
Media/Materials description
Metal - Paint
Signature/Marks
CAMM 1895 (?) DART SYSTEM MMRRI
History and use
A section of rack rail from the Mount Morgan Rack Railway that ran between Moongan and Moonmera. This section of track was replaced by a deviation in 1950. The rack railway used the Abt System which was developed in Europe to enable locomotives to climb steeper grades than those a normal adhesion worked locomotive was capable of. The Mount Morgan Rack was the only rack railway on a Government owned railway in Australia. There was also a privately owned rack railway in the north-west of Tasmania.
Registration number
R388.2
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