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Identifier: americanengineer87newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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dy 2 ft. Width over flooring boards 9 ft. Railroad to Connect Spain & France.—Construction workis under way on the Trans-Pyrenean Railway, which will connectAx, in the southeastern corner of France, with Puigcerda andRipoll, in the province of Gerona, in the northeastern portion ofSpain. Hydroplanes.—The advantages and disadvantages of hydro-planes are much the same as those of the ordinary aeroplane.Their main disadvantages are the difficulty of landing in arough sea. and the fact that on ahghting the supporting planes,etc., are liable to cause instability if there is much wind. Theyhave, however, one great advantage over aeroplanes, viz., thatthey can be made larger and carry greater useful load, as theyare not limited in space for starting. Improvements necessary,are as for aeroplanes, flexible give-and-take supporting sur-faces and, further, suitable arrangements for folding up thesesurfaces when floating on the water.—The Engineer. 210 AMERICAN ENGINEER. Vol. S7, No. 4.
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Steel Underframe Car for the Reading End Construction Reinforced by a I.argc SteelPlate, Heavy Cross Braces and End Sill Design. The Philadelphia & Reading has in service nearly two tliou-sand steel underframe, 85,000 lb. capacity box cars with a mostsubstantial end construction. One thousand more of the samedesign are now being built by the American Car & FoundryCompany. These cars have an inside length of 32 ft. 2 in., and the superstructure framing and sheathing is of wood with theexception of the carlines and several special steel reinforcingplates. There is but little in the underframe design that dilTers fromthe usual modern practice. The center sills are built up of

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  • bookdecade:1910
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  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York__N_Y____Simmons_Boardman_Pub__Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
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  • bookleafnumber:229
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