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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 417

An illustration from Van Nostrand's engineering magazine, 1879, leaf 417
403 RAILROAD ECONOMICS. the fact that the outside rail on curves erable import. The prevailing modern becomes by far the most worn. In some form is nearly like No. 1, Fig. 2a, while cases the outside worn rails, and Id side some of the older rails in use in the nearly perfect ones, are… … Fig. 2 a so that in a short time the effective con- ing is reversed ; that is, the wheels be- joint in No. 2, but it is a hard rail to come smaller in diameter of tread at points near the flange than at points re- hold. Fish plates and bolts soon release their grip. The bolts are apt to break, mote…

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