Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, Volume 261892 |
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... railroad building is raging , as a rule no expense for the con- struction of a road will be incurred with- out a prospect of remuneration . Hence the need of railroad communica- tion has caused lines to be constructed through districts ...
... railroad building is raging , as a rule no expense for the con- struction of a road will be incurred with- out a prospect of remuneration . Hence the need of railroad communica- tion has caused lines to be constructed through districts ...
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... railroads were laid almost level , but it was soon discovered that a grade of a few feet to the mile was no impediment to progress , and gradually the grade was steepened . The inventors of mountain railroad transportation might have ...
... railroads were laid almost level , but it was soon discovered that a grade of a few feet to the mile was no impediment to progress , and gradually the grade was steepened . The inventors of mountain railroad transportation might have ...
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... Railroad ; Wm . Turreff , New York , Lake Erie & Western , and N. W. Sample , Denver & Rio Grande . The feature of the report which we , as railroad men , should be most interested in , is the code of rules which it was proposed by the ...
... Railroad ; Wm . Turreff , New York , Lake Erie & Western , and N. W. Sample , Denver & Rio Grande . The feature of the report which we , as railroad men , should be most interested in , is the code of rules which it was proposed by the ...
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... Railroad Yard . A person who voluntarially enters a rail- road yard to watch the clearing away of a wreck , cannot recover damages for injuries resulting from being struck by a passing train , although no signals were given on the ...
... Railroad Yard . A person who voluntarially enters a rail- road yard to watch the clearing away of a wreck , cannot recover damages for injuries resulting from being struck by a passing train , although no signals were given on the ...
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... railroad in the United States , and postal clerks are engaged in distributing the mails on 140,736 miles of road . The de- partment has 2,891 cars under its control , of which nearly 2,300 are in constant use . BRO . H. V. WILKINS has ...
... railroad in the United States , and postal clerks are engaged in distributing the mails on 140,736 miles of road . The de- partment has 2,891 cars under its control , of which nearly 2,300 are in constant use . BRO . H. V. WILKINS has ...
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Page 27 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Page 163 - An Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and...
Page 216 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax, before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 69 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Page 216 - By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Page 73 - ... annually to save the lives of shipwrecked seamen; every steam vessel is rigidly inspected and required to adopt the most approved safety appliances. All this is good. But how shall we excuse the lack of interest and effort in behalf of this army of brave young men who in our land commerce are being sacrificed every year by the continued use of antiquated and dangerous appliances? A law requiring of every railroad engaged in interstate commerce the equipment each year of a given per cent of its...
Page 163 - ... in the United States, and shall fix a maximum variation from such standard height to be allowed between the drawbars of empty and loaded cars. Upon their determination being certified to the Interstate Commerce Commission, said commission shall at once give notice of the standard fixed upon to all common carriers, owners, or lessees engaged in interstate commerce in the United States by such means as the commission may deem proper.
Page 27 - The science which traces the laws of such of the phenomena of society as arise from the combined operations of mankind for the production of wealth, in so far as those phenomena are not modified by the pursuit of any other object.
Page 136 - Aries there his glittering bow unfold, And raging Taurus toss his horns of gold ; With bended bow the sullen Archer lowers, And there Aquarius comes with all his showers ; Lions and Centaurs, Gorgons. Hydras rise, And gods and heroes blaze along the skies.
Page 163 - That within ninety days from the passage of this act the American Railway Association is authorized...