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 365
larging the base. Railway abutments, unless for a double track,require but little breadth on top, except where the truss rests.The common ] abutment, Fig. 149, in which the stem takes the … Fig. 150. place of the wings, seems to fulfil every demand, where the bankdoes not require to be protected from the action of water. Thedifference of level of the top of the abutment and of the bridge seat MASONRY. 341 depends upon the difference between the height of the bearingof the lower chord…
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