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railroad tie

support for the rails in railroad tracks
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Summary

railroad tie ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,426 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Made from material: wood[2], concrete[3], steel[4]
  • Subclass of: railway facility[5]
  • Part of: rail track[6], permanent way[7]
  • Commons category: Railroad ties[8]
  • Said to be the same as: Q12570570[9]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[10], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[13]
  • Shape: long, thin object[14]
  • Different from: Q11820408[15]

Why It Matters

railroad tie has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0442054-zeleznicni-prazce
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0442054-zeleznicni-prazce, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  2. 20w ago · O Breixo · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 195463
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 195463"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → rail track, permanent way
    Shape → long, thin object
    Part of → —
    Said to be the same as → Q12570570
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 25072, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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