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
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 … slopes i| to 1, and the filling at the centre, C F, 13 feet. As-sume D as the point for the upper stake: let its height above F,as found by the level, be 8 feet ; C E is then 13 — 8, or 5 feet, and5 66 MANUAL FOR RAILROAD ENGINEERS. D E is A C + i^ C E, or 7.] -f- y\, or 15 feet. If the…
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