crosstie

• Eine querliegende Stütze, auf der die Schienen einer Eisenbahn befestigt werden; auch allgemein ein Querbalken oder eine Querstrebe.

A noun referring to one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track.

1. Railway support beamB2formal

   One of the horizontal beams placed under the rails of a railway track to support and maintain the gauge.

   Schwelle

   • The workers replaced the old wooden crossties with concrete ones.
   • A crosstie had rotted and needed to be changed.
   • The train rattled over the steel rails fixed to the crossties.

   Synonymerailroad tiesleepertie