Trains and Technology: Track and structuresThe radial prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style. Tracing the prophets who rant, rage, and wreak havoc through the works of Butler, Dryden, Mandeville, Pope, and other less familiar writers of the period, 'Transforming the Word' pursues the fate of radical prophecy between 1660 and 1742. |
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Contents
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Other Track and RightofWay Features | 112 |
Structures | 129 |
Stations | 131 |
Structures Needed to Service the Equipment | 174 |
Structures Needed to Conduct Operations | 197 |
Structures Needed for the Movement Processing and Storage of Commodities | 206 |
Notes | 213 |
Bibliography | 222 |
Index | 229 |
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Page 35 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 47 - There are ten inclined planes: five ascending and five descending; the carriages are dragged up the former and let slowly down the latter by means of stationary engines; the comparatively level spaces between being traversed, sometimes by horse and sometimes by engine power, as the case demands.
Page 23 - ... with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and objects of this act as hereinafter set forth. And the said corporation are hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct, and finally complete, a railroad...
Page 61 - Our organization was as well drilled as any military company. Each rail was handled by eight men, four on a side. They ran it out to the edge of the car, dropping it into place for the spikes to be driven, a man for each spike. When it was down the men walked to the same spike on the next rail, drove it and on to the next, all day. Thus there were a thousand tons of rails, thirty five hundred in number in the ten miles.
Page 46 - the Rocket," the first one built on the modern plan, was tried on the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad. The combination of the tubular boiler with the blast pipe in the chimney was the cause of its success. The general design for the Portage Railroad was this: The principal part of the elevation was to be overcome by inclined planes, which were to be straight in plan and profile ; to be on an average somewhat less than half a mile long ; and to have an angle of elevation of about five degrees,...
Page 86 - On Wednesday last we had the engine in motion again and its operation on the road carefully observed. The railroad as it now stands is not sufficiently stable for the operation of the locomotive. Before it is put to work on it the road ought to be carefully examined and strengthened, without doing so it would be unsafe to put the engine at work.
Page 54 - ... diminution of the wear and tear of engines and cars. It follows, then as a necessary consequence, that I recommend for your Rail Road the use of timber, which is found in abundance, of excellent quality on almost every part of the line. "The superstructure, then, which I propose to adopt, will be heart pine rails, nine by five inches, plated with iron bars two inches wide, and half an inch thick, resting on white or post oak sills, ten by twelve inches, and eight feet long, placed across the...
Page 100 - That when it shall be made apparent to the governor of Nebraska by affidavit of the owner or owners thereof, that a vein of coal not less than twentysix inches in depth, and of sufficient capacity to pay...
Page 33 - Let us make the iron road, and make it from sea to sea ; states and individuals making it east of the Mississippi, the nation making it west.
Page 27 - ... the numerator, and the same quotient with 1 added, the denominator of a fraction. Multiply this fraction by the fraction representing the resistance on the level rails, and the result will be the fraction showing the best inclination for the trade.
References to this book
Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 Julie Husband,Jim O'Loughlin Limited preview - 2004 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Trains and Technology: Track and structures Volume 3 of Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century, Anthony J. Bianculli |
| Author | Anthony J. Bianculli |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Delaware Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0874138027, 9780874138023 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General) Transportation / Railroads / History |
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