The Technical World Magazine, Volume 20Technical World Company, 1913 |
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Page 17
... rails . It calls down terrific maledic- tions . It issues fierce ultimatums . It mercilessly points the way to the ash heap , the backwoods , the limbo of public disgrace , the in- fernal regions - any- where and everywhere that might ...
... rails . It calls down terrific maledic- tions . It issues fierce ultimatums . It mercilessly points the way to the ash heap , the backwoods , the limbo of public disgrace , the in- fernal regions - any- where and everywhere that might ...
Page 20
... railway creeps up into the heart of the Acré rubber country , into the land of the mythical " White Indians " , where the feather- mustached Caripunas hunt in the Andean foothills , whose backbone is the roof of the South American ...
... railway creeps up into the heart of the Acré rubber country , into the land of the mythical " White Indians " , where the feather- mustached Caripunas hunt in the Andean foothills , whose backbone is the roof of the South American ...
Page 21
... railway's creation on one of the world's last frontiers , and the laying of two slender streaks of steel into the ... RAIL- WAY FOLLOWS 21 zilian half - castes fought their way up- stream , making but two hundred miles in fifty days ...
... railway's creation on one of the world's last frontiers , and the laying of two slender streaks of steel into the ... RAIL- WAY FOLLOWS 21 zilian half - castes fought their way up- stream , making but two hundred miles in fifty days ...
Page 22
... Railway , which traverses it , it is said that " Every tie rests on a human skull . " Os ! " THE PARTY WENT UPSTREAM IN BATA- LÃOS. are big men , pale copper in color , many of them wearing a peculiar mustache of red wild turkey feathers ...
... Railway , which traverses it , it is said that " Every tie rests on a human skull . " Os ! " THE PARTY WENT UPSTREAM IN BATA- LÃOS. are big men , pale copper in color , many of them wearing a peculiar mustache of red wild turkey feathers ...
Page 23
... railway construction with equipment and rolling stock costs about $ 20,000 per mile . A mile cost of $ 40,000 is reckoned as prohibitive for any line . The Madeira- Mamoré cost , approximately , $ 150,000 per mile . A generation ago ...
... railway construction with equipment and rolling stock costs about $ 20,000 per mile . A mile cost of $ 40,000 is reckoned as prohibitive for any line . The Madeira- Mamoré cost , approximately , $ 150,000 per mile . A generation ago ...
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