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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Railroad Research Information Service
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Author: United States. Department of Transportation
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Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Peter Pyne
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052092
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.

Author: American Railway Engineering Association
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Vols. for 19 - include the directory issue of the American Railway Engineering Association.

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Category : Railroad tracks
Languages : en
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Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309258243
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 695

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TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.