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 50
profile C I P K D. If we wish to descend uponthe natural surface at a uniform and given rate from C to D,knowing the rate of incline and the vertical distance between thecontour lines, we get at once the corresponding horizontal dis- SURVEY. 25 tancc from one contour line to the next, which… … Fig. 15- and the contour line is longer still. Such increased length isnot, however, represented upon the profile, as the object hasbeen simply to show the general relation between the plan andprofile, and the use of correctly drawn contour lines in adjustingany route to the ground. General…
Railroad engineering
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