Book/Printed Material The trackman's helper.
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Image 1 of The trackman's helper. REVISED 1ETH CENTURY EDITION.- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 2 of The trackman's helper. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Chap. Copyright No. Shelt^fcL-Sk UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ;«i Jii -M #m- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 3 of The trackman's helper. ■IPs a (■■m- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
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Image 4 of The trackman's helper.- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
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Image 5 of The trackman's helper. the Trackman s Helper REVISED TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITION A BOOK OF INSTRUCTION FOR TRACK FOREMEN BY J. KINDBLAN Late R. M., C, M. St. P. R y REVISED BY F. A. SMITH,...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 6 of The trackman's helper. TWO COPIES H EG EI V ED, Library of C©iigrof% Offlo o cf the MAY 1 2 1900 Register of Copyrlgfefft SECOND COPY, 4, V s Copyright, 1894, by J. KindolaD Entered...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
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Image 7 of The trackman's helper. INDEX BY CHAPTERS. Page. CHAPTER I.— Construction 1-26 CHAPTER II.— Spiking and Gaging 26-32 CHAPTER III.— General Spring Work 32-44 CHAPTER IV.— Drainage 44-55 CHAPTER V.— Summer Track Work 55-69 CHAPTER VI—...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 8 of The trackman's helper. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. A Page. Absent from Duty .284 Accidents 272 Accidents to Train 281 Accounts of Track Material 292 Adopt the Best Method 310 Account of Ties for One Year 69 A...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 9 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Broken Chains, to Connect 265 Broken Switches 265 Broken Center Pins 267 Brooms 241 Bucking Snow, General Remarks 142 Bolts 324 C Car, the Steel 18, 19 Car Truck, to...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 10 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Ditching 44 Ditches, Form of 45 Ditches, Slope of 46 Ditches, Grade of 47 Ditches, Cleaning Out 48 Ditching, a Rule for 49 Distributing New Ties 63 Difference in Length...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 11 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Frog, How to Ascertain Kind Needed 238 Foremen Should Know Degree of Curve 13 Q Gage for Track Laying 20 Gages, Track 244 Gaging Track 27 Get Acquainted with Your...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 12 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Inspection, Track 317 Interlocked Switches, Care of 313 Improper Elevation 171 Instructions, General 270 J Jacks, Track 274 Joints, Low 277 Joints, Per Mile 327 Joints, Ties Under 64 Joint,...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 13 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Measures and Weights, Table 329 Melting Points 331 Mensuration Rule 330 Mixed Length of Rails 11 Minor Tools 251 Mountain Roads 179 Movements of Rail no Moving Rail of Stub Switches...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 14 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Rails per Mile, Table 326 Rails, Short Pieces 17 Rails, Surface Bent 276 Rails, Different Height 283 Raise Both Sides 80 Raise Up the Wires 273 Raises the Sparks Raising...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 15 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Spikes, Loose 29 Spikes 32S Spikes, Number of 325 Speed, Effect on Elevation 158 Split Switches 209 Spur Tracks 239 Stock Killed, Report 306 Stop Signals 297 Standard, If There...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 16 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Page. Trespassers 283 Tunnels, Work in 205 Turnouts 208 Turnouts from Curves 231 Twisted Ties 66 Track Tools, List of 22 Tie Plates 255 Tie Plate, a Good. 259 U Uniform...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 17 of The trackman's helper. INDEX. Y Page. Yards, Ballast in 305 Yards, Level Tracks in 89 Yard, Look Over the 288 Yard Tracks, -How to Level Them 8q- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 18 of The trackman's helper. PREFACE. THE TRACKMAN S HELPER is one of the Pio- neer Track Books of America and of the world, because in other countries no books of the kind were published when the...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 19 of The trackman's helper. PERFACE. proper manner many kinds of work with which he is unacquainted, but which he may be called upon to do at any time. To help fill this want of the Trackman,...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 20 of The trackman's helper. PREFACE. date. The new Twentieth Century Edition of the Trackman s Helper, revised and improved in every way, making it a book for North, South, East and West, is herewith presented. The...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 21 of The trackman's helper.- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 22 of The trackman's helper.- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
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Image 23 of The trackman's helper. CHAPTER I.— CONSTRUCTION. REQUIREMENT OF NEW TRACK. 1. A Good railroad should be complete in all re- spects track should be full bolted, full spiked, well ballasted, surfaced, lined, and gaged, and...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 24 of The trackman's helper. 2 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. lead ties between level stakes fifty or one hundred feet apart. The work is also more accurate when finished, if the straight edge can reach a level...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 25 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. be in readiness to make a good beginning, before the men are brought upon the ground. Many awkward and serious delays have been caused by the foreman in charge neglecting to...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 26 of The trackman's helper. 4 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. men if required, or replace tools out of repair or broken, until supplies ordered can be gotten to the front. The accommodations for tracklaying should be about...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 27 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 5 Engineers should call the attention of the contrac- tor to inequalities or poor surface of grade. It is much easier and cheaper to make a good grade with teams and...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 28 of The trackman's helper. 6 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. work of constructing a railroad is poorly done it is never finished afterwards. GOOD MEN AT THE FRONT. 8. When building new road the man in charge...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 29 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 7 for a good half day s work, because much more than that amount would only be in the way and delay the work. Where the ties for a new track...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 30 of The trackman's helper. 8 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. should see that the rails are laid so that no joint will come within ten feet of the end of any bridge or cattle guard, where it...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 31 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 9 between the rails are increased from three inches to a foot, rendering the track extremely dangerous for trains, unless discovered in time by the trackmen and repaired. Too much space...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 32 of The trackman's helper. 10 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. A steel rail expands or contracts i-iooooo of a length under a load of one ton (2,240 pounds) per square inch. This is also its expansion under...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 33 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 11 the same allowance for expansion as when laying new rails. TRANSFERRING MATERIAL. 15. Owing to the scarcity of flat cars on railroads, box cars or stock cars are often used...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 34 of The trackman's helper. 12 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. there is not room for mixed rails in side tracks, lay them in the main track close to or at a station there the track is safer,...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 35 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 13 day s work the station of the end of track should be marked on the diagram. In the material yard, with the aid of the diagram, the foreman will know...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 36 of The trackman's helper. 14 THE TRACKMAN HELPER. WHEN LAID IN A SAG. 19. When a foreman lays a piece of track in a sag which he soon expects to raise up to a level surface,...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 37 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 15 terial, etc., go over the ground with a handy gang of three or four men, and line the track to the center stakes. Do not cut the rails to fill...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
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Image 38 of The trackman's helper. 16 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. loading or unloading without having to call on every passing freight train to stop and switch it for them, and lastly, because a good, smooth side track...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 39 of The trackman's helper. CONSTRUCTION. 17 these short angle bars or stops can be placed on and firmly spiked to the tie. If considered necessary ties can be cut in two and placed upright in the...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900
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Image 40 of The trackman's helper. 18 THE TRACKMAN S HELPER. old and new rails of equal lengths. A track foreman can generally avoid making a short connection, espe- cially when laying old rails, by selecting lengths, of...- Contributor: Kindelan, Joseph - Coates, F. R. - Sullivan, Jerry - Smith, Frederick Augustus
- Date: 1900