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 39
Fig. i. Fig. 2. country between B and C is an elevated plateau, the profilesor sections of the two routes would be as shown in the sec-tions A B C D and A N D. … Fig- 3- In passing from A to B (Fig. 4), by the several routes A B C D,we should have the corresponding profiles shown in Fig. 5 ; RECONNOISSANCE. 15 from which it appears that the nearer to the head of thestreams we cross, the less is the difference of elevation tobe overcome.
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