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English: Caption: "Alpine Pass. Avoidance of a Tunnel."

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Title: The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Cooley, Thomas McIntyre, 1824-1898 Clarke, Thomas Curtis, 1827-1901
Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
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e driving-wheels. They act likea three-legged stool, which can always be set level on any irreg-ular spot. The original imported English locomotives could notbe kept on the rails of rough tracks. The same experience ob-tained in Canada when the Grand Trunk Railway was opened, in1854-55. The locomotives of English pattern constantly ran offthe track; those of American pattern hardly ever did so. Finally,all their locomotives were changed by having swivelling trucksput under their forward ends, and no more trouble occurred. Theequalizing levers were patented in 1838, by Joseph Harrison, Jr.,of Philadelphia. These two improvements, which are absolutely essential to thesuccess of railways in new countries, and have been adopted inCanada, Australia, Mexico, and South America,* to the exclusion * It is proper here to say that English engineers now appreciate the merits of the American swivel-ling truck or bogie. In the article on Railways in the last edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
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Alpine Pass. Avoidance of a Tunnel. MERITS OF AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES. 7 of English patterns, are also of great value on the smoothest andbest possible tracks. The flexibility of the American machine in-creases its adhesion and enables it to draw greater loads than its

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