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Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ack is 32.8 ft. below the street level. Ventilation of this subway is provided for by iron shaftsor chimneys placed in the center of the boulevard at inter-vals of 32S ft. Some of these shafts are shown in the cut ;in a narrow or crowded street they would have to be differ-ently placed. The station, it will be seen, has stairwaysleading to a passage under the sidewalk, the ticket-office from 2j to 6 in. thick, extending from stem to stern.Within the armor-belt and above the protective deck acoffer-dam 3i ft. wide is to extend the whole length of theship, and to be filled with some water-excluding material.The 8-in. guns will be carried in barbettes with lo-in.armor, which will protect the carriages, platforms andloading positions ; over the guns will be shields 7 in. thick.The ammunition hoists and spaces below the heavy gun-mounts will have cone-shaped armor 5 in. thick. The 4-in. guns will have segmental shields of 4-in. plate, and thearmor of the conning-tower will be yi in. thick.
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SUBWAY FOR THE SCEAUX RAILROAD IN PARIS. and waiting room being in one of the buildings adjoining,so that there is no interference with the street itself, Thissubway has some points worth consideration here. THE UNITED STATES NAVY. The accompanying illustrations, from the report of ChiefConstructor T. D. Wilson, show two important ships nowunder construction for the Navy, about which very littlehas been said thus far. THE ARMORED CRUISER. Armored Cruiser No. 2—the Maine is No. I—which isunder construction by the Cramp Company, in Philadel-phia, and which will be named New York, will be aformidable vessel on account of her speed, her heavy bat-tery and her powers of resistance. This ship will be 380ft. 6) in. in length on water line, 64 ft. beam, and will havea displacement of 8,150 tons, and a mean draft of 23 ft. 3iin. The main battery will consist of six 8-in. breech-loadingrifles and twelve 4-in. rapid-fire guns ; the secondary bat-tery of 12 smaller rapid-tire guns, four 37-mi

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