Book/Printed Material Railway track and track work.
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- Date: 1901
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Image 5 of Railway track and track work. RAILWAY TRACK and TRACK WORK By y E. E. RUSSELL TRATMAN, A. M. Am. Soc. C. E., Associate Editor of Engineering New; SECOND EDITION Fully revised, and with Supplementary Chapters on Signals...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
- Date: 1901
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Image 6 of Railway track and track work. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Two Copies Received FEB. 27 1901 Copyright entry CLASS CO XXc. No. 29 do COPY B. i K Copyright, 1901, by THE ENGINEERING NEWS PUBLISHING CO.- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 7 of Railway track and track work. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. In view of the importance of the railway track which carries the enor- mous railway traffic of the United States, and in view of the amount of...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 8 of Railway track and track work. ii new standards have been adopted with the general progress made in this department, and these various improvements are represented in the re- vision. Not only has the book been thoroughly revised,...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 9 of Railway track and track work. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I.— TRACK. Chapter 1 .—Introduction i The Importance of the. Track, Relations of Track to Traffic, Statis- tics of Railways. Chapter 2.— Roadbed Construction 9 Formation on Banks...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 10 of Railway track and track work. IV PART II.— TRACK WORK. Chapter 16.— Organization of Hainte nance off -Way Department 261 Systems of Organization, Engineers as Roadmasters, Duties of Roadmasters, Section Foremen, Trackwalkers and Watchmen, Force and Labor,...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 11 of Railway track and track work. RAILWAY TRACK AND TRACK WORK. PART L— TRACK. CHAPTER I.— INTRODUCTION. The railway system of the United States now aggregates about 190,000 miles of railway, with 252,000 miles of track, the traffic...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 12 of Railway track and track work. 2 TRACK. masters were (and are) of this latter type, and it is no discredit to them to say that they were rarely competent to understand the principles upon which track work...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 13 of Railway track and track work. INTRODUCTION. 3 and that he can sustain it if it is called in question.. He should at the same time be familiar with the financial conditions of the company, and regulate his...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 14 of Railway track and track work. 4 TRACK. creased to a marked extent by a material increase of speed over a some- what light track, and the traveling public will become aware of the fact that such a...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 15 of Railway track and track work. INTRODUCTION. 5 American and Foreign Railways, read by the author before the New York Railway Club in 1896, in which paper details were given of actual conditions then existing. An objection to...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 16 of Railway track and track work. 6 TRACK. June 30, 1899, aggregated 862,258,714 train miles, and the operating ex- penses amounted to 65.24% of the gross earnings from operation. The largest item in the expenditures for operation is...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 17 of Railway track and track work. INTRODUCTION. 7 eral railways the relation of the maintenance of way expenses to the mile- age, train mileage and operating expenses. In many statistics of this kind the figures are simply given...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 18 of Railway track and track work. 8 TRACK. used; nor should he assume that a method is wrong simply because it could not be applied to advantage on his own road or division. Engineers and roadmasters should comprehend...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 19 of Railway track and track work. INTRODUCTION. Total Expenditures for Operation. Per cent, of Op. exp. Total exp. Maintenance of way and structures 21. U5 14.07 Maintenance of equipment 17. b2 12.27 Conducting transportation 56.73 39.53 General expenses...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 20 of Railway track and track work. 10 TRACK. steam rollers in consolidating the roadbed would in many cases have a material influence in reducing maintenance expenses, especially for such work as surfacing and reballasting. The drainage of the...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 21 of Railway track and track work. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. 11 together. Where the roadbed is wet and muddy in spots, the mud should he dug out and replaced with a filling of cinders or clean gravel. New York Central...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 22 of Railway track and track work. 12 TRACK. New York, New Haven Hartford Ry. (Fig. 3). This road has a very- flat roadbed, with no deep side ditches. The width is 30 ft. for double track and 54...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
- Date: 1901
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Image 23 of Railway track and track work. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. 13 ballast is rounded off from inside the rail, touching the bottom of the tie. Cinder ballast (for side tracks) is shaped the same as broken stone. The depth of...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
- Date: 1901
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Image 24 of Railway track and track work. 14 TRACK. in much the same way, on a roadbed 20 ft. wide, being 13 ins. deep at the middle, where it extends 3 ins. above the ties. Ballast of coarse gravel...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 25 of Railway track and track work. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. 15 isting high banks. Stone ballast is shouldered out 6 ins. beyond the ties; it is 15 ins. deep (below top of tie) at the middle and 18 ins. at...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 26 of Railway track and track work. 16 TRACK. v banks are made 20 ft. wide at subgrade (or 18 ft. on branch lines) to allow for shrinkage. Minneapolis, St. Paul Sault Ste. Marie Ry. (Fig. 10).— The single...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 27 of Railway track and track work. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. 17 pipe drain is laid in the trench, and the ballast is filled in around it. With this arrangement the ballast is usually filled in level with the ties for...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 28 of Railway track and track work. 18 TRACK. n- and so prevent them from turning. The rails are laid with square joints, with a ribbed base plate, y 2 x 7 x 20 ins., under the joint, the...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 29 of Railway track and track work. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. 19 Concrete Substructure. The idea is gaining foothold that eventually some more permanent character of track construction will have to be adopted in order to obtain greater durability and economy...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 30 of Railway track and track work. 20 TRACK y- u S 3 (U fif teg g* o 9 M- fc-^-^-^-vJ/- M I 55 HI I S__- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 31 of Railway track and track work. ROADBED CONSTRUCTION. 21 broken stone. On this again is a floor of gravel concrete, forming benches for the rails and filled in between the rails to cover the 1-in. tie-rods which form...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 32 of Railway track and track work. 22 TRACK. CHAPTER 3.— BALLAST. Returning now to the existing system of track construction, the ballast is a most important item in securing a good track, with economy in main- tenance and...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
- Date: 1901
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Image 33 of Railway track and track work. BALLAST. 23 to protect the ties from the sun. The standard depth of ballast under the ties rarely exceeds 12 ins., but there are many cases where it would be wise and...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 34 of Railway track and track work. 24 TRACK. first cost of stone ballast is considerably greater than that of sand, and the cost of maintenance is sometimes more, yet there is less liability of wash- outs, weeds do...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 35 of Railway track and track work. BALLAST. 25 covered with a few inches of slack coal, or slack and lump mixed, upon which is thrown a layer of clay 9 to 12 ins. thick. The wood is then...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 36 of Railway track and track work. 26 TRACK. as possible. The best gravel is clean and coarse, with stones of fairly uni- form size, and as little sand as possible. Only very clean gravel will drain as well...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 37 of Railway track and track work. BALLAST. 27 very bad cases the mud holes or wet spots may be dug out and filled with cinders. The cinders should not be laid on earth ballast when the frost is...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 38 of Railway track and track work. 28 TRACK. transverse channels, while in some cases grass is allowed to grow upon and consolidate the surface. Miscellaneous. Oyster shells are used on some lines along the coast, and make an...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 39 of Railway track and track work. TIES AND TIE-PLATES. 29 50,000,000 acres in good condition, or about 10% of the present forest area of the United States, which is about 500,000,000 acres. These figures are neces- sarily but...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
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Image 40 of Railway track and track work. 30 TRACK. wear. Its average life is about 8 years under heavy traffic, though it some- times lasts 10 to 12 years. On the Illinois Central Ry., the average life is 4...- Contributor: Tratman, E. E. R. (Edward Ernest Russell)
- Date: 1901