The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances
Thomas Curtis Clarke
Essays
Book language: English
389 pages
The American Railway is an 1889 collection of essays by Thomas Curtis Clarke and other engineers and administrators on the building, development, management and equipment of American railroads. It explains how lines were surveyed, bridges and tracks built, and trains operated, offering a vivid portrait of the railway age. It offers a detailed view of nineteenth-century engineering and industrial organization.
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Opening of the book
THE AMERICAN RAILWAY THE LAST SPAN—READY TO JOIN. Tƒŧ AƽŧǡƗŕĵƿ RĵƗƯ΅ĵΏ ITS CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT,
MANAGEMENT, AND APPLIANCES BY THOMAS CURTIS CLARKETHEODORE VOORHEES JOHN BOGARTBENJAMIN NORTON M. N. FORNEYARTHUR T. HADLEY E. P. ALEXANDERTHOMAS L. JAMES H. G. PROUTCHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS HORACE PORTERB. B. ADAMS, JR. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS M. COOLEY CHAIRMAN OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION WITH MORE THAN 200 ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1889
CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1888, 1889, œΏ
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION
xxi
BΏ THOMAS M. COOLEY,
Chairman Interstate Commerce Commission.
THE BUILDING OF A RAILWAY
1
By THOMAS CURTIS CLARKE,
Civil Engineer.
Roman Tramways of Stone—First Use of Iron Rails—The Modern
Railway created by Stephenson's "Rocket" in 1830—Early
American Locomotives—Key to the Evolution of the American
Railway—Invention of the Swivelling Truck, Equalizing Beams, and the Switchback—Locating a Road—Work of the Surveying
Party—Making the Road-bed—How Tunnels are Avoided—More than Three Thousand Bridges in the United States—Old Wooden
Structures—The Howe Truss—The Use of Iron—Viaducts of
Steel—The American System of Laying Bridge Foundations under Water—Origin of the Cantilever—Laying the Track—How it is Kept in Repair—Premiums for Section Bosses—Number of
Railway Employees in the United States—Rapid Railway
Construction—Radical Changes which the Railway will Effect.
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