Identifier: railroadengineer63newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ll boat, used only for very short trips, thisseems to be an excellent pattern, although lacking in manyof the conveniences we are accustomed to in this countryeven on our smaller steamboats. The hull and engine areworth examination, and there is something to be said infavor of the economy of space in the passenger arrange-ments. This boat is now in service, plying on the Seine betweenthe Bridge des Saints-Peres and the Bridge of Jena, andcarrying daily a large number of passengers. ELECTRIC RAILROADS. (Abstract of paper read by G. W. Mansfield, before the National ElectricLight Association.) To show the importance of the subject a table is givenshowing that there are in 26 cities of the United States 189companies operating street lines ; these include the ele-vated roads in New York and Brooklyn. These compa-nies own 3,414 miles of track ; 18,645 cars ; 77,884 horses, THE RAILROAD AND ENGINEERING JOURNAL. (Copyrigtil, 1889, bj Frank S. Washburn.) VOLUME LXIII, No. i OCTOBER, >889.^
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FUNCTIONS OF TURNOUTS.By Frank S. Washburn, (Copyr.ghl. 1B8.). by Fntnlt S. Wj.hbuni,) The chart o( railroad turnout functions, printed here-with, furnishes a rapid and easy way of obtaining all iliemeasurements necessary to slake out ordinary stub-switchturnouts, single or double, lor side frogs numbers 4 to12, inclusive, and for switch-rail lengths 12 lo 28 ft., in-clusive. The special value of this chart lies in the factthat it provides for wide variations in the position of thefrog with reference lo its head-block. The staking out of a railroad turnout, although ordina-rily a simple maitcr. is the source of interminable disagree-ments between the young engineer, who depends solelyupon his figures for the perfection of his work, and theroadmaster or irack-foreman,,who dependschieHy upon theaccuracy of his eye. It is a subject of discussion in whichthe man of figures is generally hcalen. not because hecarries his mathematics loo lar, but because, by reason ofthe lengthy calculations

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