. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . Fig. 15. ENGINEERS IMPROVED TAPECHAIN. 62 BUILDING AND RE PAIRING RAILWAYS, chain (Figs. 14 and 15), {c) a 100 ft. steel tape,(Fig. 16), (r/) two ranging poles or rods (Fig. 17),. Fig. 16. STEEL TAPE. {e) brush hooks, (/) axes, {g) transit books, (A)lead pencils, hard and medium, (i) kiel pencils, Sji Fig. 17. RANGING RODS OR POLES. Used in placing hubs. {j) tacks for centers on hubs, {k) two 50 ft. Ches-termans metallic tapes (Fig. 18), (


. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . Fig. 15. ENGINEERS IMPROVED TAPECHAIN. 62 BUILDING AND RE PAIRING RAILWAYS, chain (Figs. 14 and 15), {c) a 100 ft. steel tape,(Fig. 16), (r/) two ranging poles or rods (Fig. 17),. Fig. 16. STEEL TAPE. {e) brush hooks, (/) axes, {g) transit books, (A)lead pencils, hard and medium, (i) kiel pencils, Sji Fig. 17. RANGING RODS OR POLES. Used in placing hubs. {j) tacks for centers on hubs, {k) two 50 ft. Ches-termans metallic tapes (Fig. 18), (Z) engineersfield book, (m) scratch blocks, (w) one soundingrod, 3 joints 8 feet each, (o) red and white flan-nel for signals, (^) drawing paper, (^q) tin mapcases, (r) scales (Fig. 19), (.s) protractor (Figs. 20and 21), (t) steel straight edge, {it) triangles, (t;) THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY, 63 India ink and ink slab and carmine blue andneutral tint water colors, {ic) set of, drawing in-struments and drawing board. The leveling party isgenerally made up of aleveler and a rodman,but if rapid work is to bedone, the force can beincreased to meet re-quirements. The level- ^la. party is responsible chestermans metallic the correct elevation of the ground at all sta,-


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