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 83
ured withan amount of excavation and embankment far below that encoun-tered upon the majority of roads traversing rough mountain passes,and hardly exceeding the average of roads in many parts of NewEngland. The grade line has been purposely kept quite high — avery essential precaution, on account… … Fig. 20. Pennsylvania Railroad, there are several very sharp curves andsteep grades. At Vanscoyoc, V, in Fig. 20, there is a semicircle LOCATION. 59 of 12° curve (radius 478 feet), and at Mount Pleasant, P, in theFig., a semicircle of from 150 to 160 40 curve (radius 383 to 345feet). The rise from…
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