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Title: Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways,
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kirkman, Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe), 1842-1921
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York and Chicago : The World railway publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Section. Side View. Fig. 107. COMMON SENSE RAIL JOINT. Sl\iNDARDS OF CONSTRUCTION. 245 B\ 1- o si^i : o flj u. 1£ I UJ CL cn tn it
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246 BUILDING AND REPAIRING RAILWAYS, signed to accomplish the same object as the con-tinuous rail joint. They are used by roads havingheavy traffic. Fig. lOS gives a view of a jointadopted by the Chicago & Northwestern RailwayCompany to secure the advantages claimed forthe continuous rail joint without having to dis-card the angle bars; the objectionable featurewith this fastening is that the upward wave mo-tion has no greater resistance at the joint thanwith the angle bar alone; the plate assists inpreventing the joint becoming low and addslateral stiffness when the spikes are well driven. There are two functions to be performed byrail joints. One is to resist the rapid blows fromthe wheels of the engines and cars of fast pas-senger trains, and the other the slower blows fromfreight trains. The weight on the driving wheelsof the new passenger locomotives of the highspeed type is less than the new style of locomo-tives for freight. The latest style of freight loco-motives for the

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