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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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illustrations. Rail Sections.Fig. I. Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railroad (Austria).Fig. 2. Austrian Northwestern Railroad, No. i.Fig. 3. * ** No. 2. Fig. 4. * No. 3. Fig. 5. Austrian State Railroads.Fig. 6. Hungarian State Railroads.Fig. 7. Andalusian Railroad(Spain).Fig. 8. Belgian Grand Central Railroad,Fig. 9. Netherlands State Railroad.Fig. 10. Swiss Southwestern Railroad.Fig. II. Netherlands-Rhenish Railroad.Fig. 12. Holland Railroad Company.Fig. 13. Riazan-Koslow Railroad (Russia).Fig. 14. Rostof-Woronege Railroad (Russia).Fig. 15. Belgian Northern Railroad.Fig. 19. French Government Railroads.Fig. 20. Midland Railroad (France). Tire Sections.Fig. 16. Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railroad (Austria).Fig. 17. Austrian Northwestern Railroad.Fig. 18. Hungarian State Railroads.NoTK.—All measurements on the plates are in millimeters. The engravingsare all made to the same scale—one-half full size. The rail sections given, with the exception of the two THE RAILROAD AND (November, 1889.
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EUROPEAN RAIL SECTIONS. Vol. LXIII, No. II.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 503 shown in figs. 19 and 20, are all of the Vignoles type,which is commonly used in this country. The double-headed rail has a number of representatives, especially onthe French and English lines, but most of these have beenomitted as being of little interest here, the two given beingselected for reproduction as types of the general form ofthat class of rail. The comparison of the sections of rail in use on so manyprominent railroads in Europe with those used in thiscountry will be an interesting one, which there is not herespace to give in any detail. One pomt which may beespecially noted, however, is that the European railroadsdo not favor sharp corners, and that the radius of thecurve joining the top surface of the head to the sides is inall cases large. Other points, both of resemblance and ofdifference, will also attract attention. It is to be regrettedthat sections of the joints used, do not in all cases accom-pa

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