Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States (1883)
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 251
e washer plates, C, whichrest on the top of the chord, and carry the nuts of the ties, theplates for the main and counter ties being cast separately. The15 226 MANUAL FOR RAILROAD ENGINEERS. angle blocks arc cast with a flange running their whole length,which fits into grooves cut across the under… … the timber of the chord across the fibre. The lower angle blockis cast in one piece, having a series of webs on the under sidethrough which the pin passes. The top laterals are similar tothose used in the Howe Truss, except that the bearing of thehalf struts is taken by small castings placed around…
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