Book/Printed Material Elements of railroad track and construction,
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Image 7 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PEE WENNS OF RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION BY WINTER L WILSON PROFESSOR OF RAILROAD ENGINEERING LEHIGH UNIVERSITY a FIRST EDITION FIRST THOUSAND NEW YORK JOHN WILEY SONS LONDON CHAPMAN HALL LIMITED 1908- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 8 of Elements of railroad track and construction, LIBRARY of CONGRESS wo Gopies Hecuived SEP 18 1908 Gepye pie BONY rt A0Se Ch Kk to Bre 5 rientific Press hert Drummond and Company New York- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 9 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PREFACE In this volume no attempt has been made to treat the subjects of railroad track and construction with any con siderable amount of detail but rather to present a few of…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 11 of Elements of railroad track and construction, TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I History oF RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES sang Art Development of Gailroads 0060 fe os 1 RE Parr AR IND VN eee ee ec aey choy…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 13 of Elements of railroad track and construction, CHAPTER I HISTORY OF RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES ARTICLE I DEVELOPMENT OF RAILROADS 1 Definition of Term RailroadThe terms rail road and railway are synonymous and are about the same age…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 14 of Elements of railroad track and construction, z RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION consisted of trams of wood or flat stones laid flush with the surface of the road these developed to stone and wooden stringers covered with strapiron and…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 15 of Elements of railroad track and construction, HISTORY OF RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES 3 clouds of condensed steam so Stephenson tried the ex periment of turning the exhaust into the stack thus by accident he discovered that he…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 16 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 4 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION road built in the United States was at Quincy Mass in 1825 It was five miles long and ran between a stone quarry and an ocean pier…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 17 of Elements of railroad track and construction, HISTORY OF RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES 5 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1830 by Peter Cooper who took a stationary engine mounted it on a flat car connected it with the…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 18 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 6 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION United States The following table shows the growth of railroads in the United States TABLE I SINGLE SECOND THIRD FourtH YARDS AND TOTAL YerAR TRACK TRACK TRACK…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 19 of Elements of railroad track and construction, Q CHAPTER IT PERMANENT WAY ArTIcLE II BALLAST Function of BallastThe main function of ballast is to keep the track in true line and surface The weight of the engine and train…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 20 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 8 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION decay of the ties and the softening of the subgrade It should give a firm support to the tie and prevent the tie from moving laterally If…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 21 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 9 prevents lateral movement of the tie and water drains out readily thus keeping the subgrade dry and has a minimum tendency to cause the tie to decay Stone ballast…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 22 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 10 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION with ballastforks which allows the finer material to sift out in handling 13 Laying and Depth of Stone BallastWhen the ballast varies in size the larger stones…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 23 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 11 and branches Some specify a rounded shoulder for the top of the side slope of the ballast at six inches from the end of the tie as at A…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 24 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 12 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION with the ordinary tools of the track gang This adds oreatly to the neatness of the roadbed When there is more ballast than is required for the…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 25 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 13 18 Slag BallastSlag of the right composition when broken to the proper size makes a ballast which com pares very favorably with rock ballast but its use is re…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 26 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 14 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION men claim that slag ballast requires more tamping than broken stone and also a greater tendency to make the ties decay and that it corrodes the rails…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 27 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 15 In many cases a deposit of bankgravel is found in which the pebbles are the proper size for ballast and the proportion of sand and clay or loam is…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 28 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 16 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION upon a bar screen with twoinch spaces thus removing all pebbles larger than twoinch these large pebbles being discharged into a crusher The material then passes successively…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 29 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 17 composed principally of clinkers slag burned rock ete It is necessary to dispose of this material and it mustbe loadedinto cars hauled away and dumped so the only expense…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 30 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 18 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION keep it free from weeds and dust The amount of dust formed by a fast train over a sandballasted roadbed is enormous The sand should be clean…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 31 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY Ae ballast It is excavated from pits with steam shovels and closely resembles burnt clay ballast In ballasting track it is first tamped with shovels and surfaced up later with…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 32 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 20 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION track It is dusty in dry weather and causes the ties to pump mud in wet weather No surfacing can be done between fall and spring and…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 33 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY A than desired besides the disadvantages mentioned m9 25 In Fig 3 it is seen that the tie is not imbedded as in rock ballast Fig 1 but that the…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 34 of Elements of railroad track and construction, yap RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION hauled a long distance the track is lined up and surfaced with as little sand or dirt ballast as possible and is ballasted by the maintenance of…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 35 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 23 gitudinal supports or stringers they are now generally called ties Crossties hold the rails in position and transfer the pressure of the engine and train through the ballast to…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 36 of Elements of railroad track and construction, yi aie RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION Aiter rails which could carry the load between supports were invented the ends of the rails rested on stone blocks Fig 5 As the design of…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 38 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 26 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION purposes other than ties and on account of the great demand for it its slow growth and its increasing scarcity the proportionate use of the softer and…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 39 of Elements of railroad track and construction, PERMANENT WAY 27 railroad managements There were in June 1906 according to the Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission 224363 miles of steam railroads and 319 106 miles of track in operation…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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Image 40 of Elements of railroad track and construction, 28 RAILROAD TRACK AND CONSTRUCTION where traffic is heavy and rails must be replaced which is done in many cases by driving the spikes in another part of the tie without plugging…- Contributor: Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln)
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About this Item
Title
- Elements of railroad track and construction,
Names
- Wilson, Winter L. (Winter Lincoln), 1866-
Created / Published
- New York, J. Wiley, 1908.
Headings
- - Railroads--Design and construction
- - Railroad tracks
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- v, 320 p. illus., diagrs. 19 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- TF200 .W6
Library of Congress Control Number
- 08027791
OCLC Number
- 4247521
Online Format
- online text
- image