Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 151
ed from interrupting the working of the line.These snow-ploughs are sometimes urged forward with the united power ofeight heavy locomotives. Fig. 55 represents one of these ploughs cleaningthe line, by throwing off the snow on to the sides of the track. The cuttingapparatus varies in its… … Fig. 56.— The first Steam Railroad Train iti America. Sacramento is 1,775 miles from Omaha, and is connected with San Fran-cisco by a line 139 miles long. At San Francisco, or rather at Oakland,1,911 miles from Omaha and 3,212 miles from New York, is the terminusof the great system of lines…
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