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 90
al surface, we see at once that the up-hill slopestake is at a greater, and the down-hill stake at a less horizontaldistance than if the ground was level. In this case we assumethe point B, find with the level its height above the road-bedII K, multiply this height by the slope, add half the width… … Suppose we wir,h to find the horizontal distances D E andH K, Fig. 26, at which to put in the stakes for the bottom of theslopes of an embankment, the road-bed being 15 feet wide, the
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