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 85
Fie. 21. descending rapidly, but being confined to one slope only, insteadof crossing the valley as in Fig. 21. … LOCATION. 61 Additional Examples of Steep Grades and Sharp Curves. There are two points upon the railroad from Bilbao to Miranda,in the north of Spain, at the entrance of the basin of Ordima,distant only 600 yards, measuring across the neck of the basin,which are 8| miles distant along the line of…
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