Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 156
d belowthe ordinary rails—to receive the safety-trucks running on these internal rails—some few feetbeyond the foot of the plane. The internal pairs of rails are spiked to the same sleepers as the ordi-nary ones, till just as they reach the tunnels mentioned, when they descend by a rapid incline,… … front end forms a spring buffer by means of India-rubber, or, as they term them here, gum springsThe construction will be readily understood from Fig. 2380, which is a sectional view. The oae endof main rope passes down under the front of truck, to keep it low to miss the axles and under-gearof the…
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