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Identifier: americanengineer67newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ave been obtained with steel tiesof the Heindl type on the Bavarian State Railroads, in a testextending over several years. Herr Ast refers to the unfavorable results obtained on theBelgian State railroads with metallic tics of the Post andBraet types. lie considers that the difference in results was I Some reference has heretofore been madeto a canal recently completed in Japan,which extends from Lake Biwa to the cityof Kioto. This canal is 0.9 miles long, andits construction has required some difficultwork. It passes through three tunnels whicharc respectively 8,040 ft., 411 ft. and 2,803ft. in length. Just below the third tunnel, ata distance of 5.:i miles from Lake Biwa, thecanal is divided into two. One branch—the high-level—is used for irrigation pur-poses, while the other, which is designed for navigation,descends 118 ft. in a distance of 1,800 ft. to the levelof the city, a slope of about 1 in 1.5. The boat traflic atthis point is worked by an inclined plane-way, the boats
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BOAT INCLINE ON THE BIWA CANAL IN JAPAN. being iiut into a wheeled cradle, which is hauled up and letdown by means of a wire TO))e. In the illustrations—whichare from Induiftviea—fig. 1 is a plan and fig. 2 a profile ofthe incline. Fig. 3 is a view taken on the slope, showingthe cradles in wliich boats are carried. The cables of the inclined plane are operated by electricenergy furnished by a Sprague motor driven by a Peltonwater-wheel. The fall of the canal also affords a very valu-able water-power, a part of which has already been utilized (January, 1893. ENGLISH EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE BY MR. W. ADAMS, LOCOMOTIVE SUPEKINTENDENT OF THE LONDON & SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY.BOILT AT THE NINE-ELMS WORKS OP THAT COMPANY. Capacity of rtiiiX* 3.300 Qallons

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  • bookyear:1893
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York___M_N__Forney
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:41
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  • bookcollection:americana
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