An over-wide track gauge is the leading cause of derailments in industrial rail yards but our single & double ended gauge rods provide a solution.

Locomotive and freight car wheels can exert as much as 4000 lbs. of side pressure against the rails. If the ties are spongy, they can lose their spike-holding strength and allow the rails to be pushed over from the wheel-side force. A between-the-rails derailment requires crane-lifting to put the car or engine back on the rails and extensive track repair.

Our Gauge Control Rods are fabricated for standard gauge 56.5 in track and rail sizes 60-140 lbs./yd. Both can be furnished in insulated form and for the narrow gauge at extra cost.

Straight Track
Double-End Gauge Rods offer maximum gauge-holding security. A pair of iron jaws at each end of the double-ended gauge rod grip the rail base to hold the rails to gauge and keep the rails upright against wheel pressure.

Curved Track
Single-End Gauge Rods hold the gauge by utilizing the outward pressure of wheels against the outer curved rail.

The Important Role of Rail Gauge Rod:

As an important accessory for railroad tracks, rail gauge tie rod helps to improve the rails’ lateral stability and also the ability to keep rail distance. There are some railways that with track circuit, then it should use the insulated rail gauge rod which adopts high insulation resistance material to separate the circuit between two rails apart. Rail gauge may deviated if gauge tie rod is serious lacked, it may cause derailment or even overturned when the train passing by.

Made of two clamping devices at either end to fix railway tracks and a connected rod in the middle, a rail gauge rod fastens two parallel railways with certain gauge railway and prevents the rail from sliding.
For some weaker sections of rails, like in sharp curves, turnouts, bad ties and temporary track, rail gauge rods are quite necessary, they help to prevent the rail track from unbalanced longitudinal tension and keep regular rail gauges.