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Types and details of bridge construction (1904)

Skinner, Frank W. (Frank Woodward), 1858-1932 · New York, McGraw · leaf 110

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s. The trestle bents arecomposed of independentvertical and battered postsbraced by horizontal anddiagonal pairs of chan-nels field-riveted acrosstheir faces. The girdersare 105 and 108 ft. 9 in.long and have a uniformdepth of 9 ft. over all.They were made with webplates ^-in. thick andflanges each… … Jntermediaf^Frames. Half-Cross Sections of Single TrackStructure.93 94 BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION long, respectively. All girders corresponded except in thelengths of the materials. They were designed for a live load oftwo 177^ ton locomotives, followed by a train load of 5000 lbs. \ / I \1/ \

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