Book/Printed Material The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:
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Image 1 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: AND Section-Master s Guide.- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 2 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. @]^jt ©Bjnjrir^W Oa.. Shelf. K 54 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 3 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 4 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
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Image 5 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
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Image 6 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
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Image 7 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: The Road-Master s Assistant.- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 8 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 9 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: THE Road -MASTER S Assistant AND SECTION-MASTER S GUIDE A MANUAL OF REFERENCE FOR ALL HAVING TO DO WITH THE PERMANENT WAY OF AMERICAN RAILROADS CONTAINING THE BEST RESULTS OF EXPERIENCE AND...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 10 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: Copyright, 1877, BY THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. H. J. HEWITT, PRINTERi 27 ROSE STREET, NEW YORK.- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 11 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: PREFACE. The object in offering this little volume to the rail- road public is to correct, as far as possible, certain erro- neous practices into which track-layers and section-men have fallen, which...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 12 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: IV PREFACE. ing on the same topics but they are mainly of a tech- nical nature, and not adapted to the wants or capacities of the average track-man^ and are of little...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 13 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION. -O-*- To Mr. W. S. Huntington, a practical track- man, and a man of very keen perceptive facul- ties and sound, decided common sense, is due the...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 14 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: VI PREFACE. at the solicitation of others, who did me the honor to ask me to revise and add to the work of my fellow-laborer Huntington, I have at leisure hours supplied,...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 15 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: PREFACE. VU ing of other earnest and zealous workers in this direction. These three will enable the organizer of any road to select the fittest for his use. A special chapter is...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 16 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: VIll PREFACE. have the reader s and student s and I trust that some of them may be moved to take up the work where I cease, fill up the gaps left...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 17 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. TS.ACK-LAYING. PAGE Careless Work Usual Defects and their Consequences Choice of Cross-Ties Should be of Uniform Size— How to Lay Them, and How Not to Lay Them Side Ties—...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 18 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: X CONTENTS. CHAPTER IV. CATTLE-GUARDS, CULVERTS, AND TURN-OUTS. PAGE Cattle-Guards often Mere Traps— Their Proper Construction- Laying Iron over Cattle-Guards, Culverts, and Road-Crossings— Laying Turn-Uuts— Locating Frogs— Tables for Putting in Frogs...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 19 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: CONTENTS, XI CHAPTER VIII. DRAWING SPIKES SHIMMING. PAGE Waste in Spike-drawing Claw-Bars The Bull s-Foot Spike- drawing in Winter Loss by Carelessness Shimming its ad- vantages Often Badly Done Shims often ill-made...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 20 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: Xll CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. SNOW AND ICE. PAGE Snow-Ploughs Insufficient Jealousy of Master-Mechanics a Hin- drance to their Improvement— Other Reasons Clearing the Flange-Way Some Methods of Doing This, 107 CHAPTER XIIL...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 21 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: CONTENTS. XIU PAGE Action of the Great Corporations when Lesser Lines are Pro- jected Defective Legislation Outlines of Laws to Check the Evil Crossings Above or Below proposed Conditions for Crossing at...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 22 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: XIV CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIX RULES AND TABLES. PAGE Curving Rails v/ith Lever and Curving Hook Method of Finding approximately the Degree of Curvature required to Reach any- Desired Object, Point of Curve...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 23 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: CONTENTS, XV ILLUSTRATIONS. Steel-rail Frog Switch-Stand Semaphore Signal Steel rail Frog- Crossing Malleable Iron Head Chair Sections of Rail and Rail- Joints used on the Atlantic Great Western, the Pittsburgh, Cin- cinnati...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 24 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide:- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 25 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: The Road-Master s Assistant. CHAPTER I. TRACK-LAYING. Careless Work Usual Defects and their Consequen- ces Choice of Cross-ties Should be of Uniform Size How to Lay Them, and How Not to Lay...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 26 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: 2 THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT. will be corrected when the road has once been tested. This is a most fallacious idea for there is, in fact, no remedy for some of the...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 27 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: SELECTION OF CROSS-TIES. 3 side of the track gets an uneven support and will settle out of surface, while that on the other will remain in good surface, making a disagree- able...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 28 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: 4 THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT, ning up hill thus rising and falling as the ties are wide or narrow. If the rails were made of a material which would retain its shape...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 29 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: LAYING TIES, 5 space, a disagreeable rocking motion is given to the trains, which occasions unnecessary wear to track and rolling stock. Ties should be laid at right angles with the rail,...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 30 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT.- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 31 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: SIGHTING IN TIES, 7 nient for those who lay the ties. The men who lay the leading ties must handle a straight-edge 21 feet in length a difficult proceeding, espe- cially in...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 32 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: 8 THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT, grade-stake, and you are now ready to proceed. The target is made by mortising a standard into a block. A cross-piece at the top of the stan-...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 33 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: MEASURING OFF FOR JOINT-TIES. 9 prolong the life of rails and reduce the expense of track repairs. The cross-ties must be pro- perly and evenly spaced, sixteen ties to a 30-foot rail,...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 34 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: lO THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT. track on curves it is necessary to use a short one for the inner rail occasionally, to keep the joint even v/ith the centre of the opposite...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 35 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: LAYING TIES ON BRIDGES, II case they are worthless, or they work out of place, thus leaving the rail with only a bearing on every third or fourth tie. This should never...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 36 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: 12 THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT. avoid jarring in case a train crosses the bridge off the rails. In order to avoid, if possible, the destruction of the bridge, a guard-timber should be...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 37 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: PREPARING ROADWAY FOR TIES. 1 3 fish-plates with the suspension-joint are far more frequent than in the joint on the tie. But I also assert that no fish-plate fastening that I have...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 38 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: 14 THE ROAD-MASTER S ASSISTANT, have not been hewn to a uniform thickness but this should be attended to, and when a tie varies it should be adzed, so as to have...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 39 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: INSTRUCTIOXS FOR TRACK-LAYING. I 5 The good mason prides himself upon the use of the three tools of his craft the compass, the level, the square. These tools the compass being represented...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878
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Image 40 of The road-master's assistant and section-master's guide: 1 6 THE ROAD MASTER S ASSISTANT. gang of thirty-one men and a horse are re- quired, the men divided about as follows I foreman. 4 men spacing ties. 6 men on...- Contributor: Huntington, William S. - Latimer, Charles
- Date: 1878