Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . , Steam-brake. Stopper. Street-car. Street-railway. Stringer. Subterranean railway. Switch. Switch-lantern. Switch-signal. Tank car. Tink-Iocomotive. Tender. Tie. Tongue. Tool-car. Track. Track clearer. Tracklayer. Track la;, ing railway. Track raiser. Traction-engine. Trailer. Tram. Tramway. Tram-wheeL Traverser. Traverse-table. Traversing-jack.
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . , Steam-brake. Stopper. Street-car. Street-railway. Stringer. Subterranean railway. Switch. Switch-lantern. Switch-signal. Tank car. Tink-Iocomotive. Tender. Tie. Tongue. Tool-car. Track. Track clearer. Tracklayer. Track la;, ing railway. Track raiser. Traction-engine. Trailer. Tram. Tramway. Tram-wheeL Traverser. Traverse-table. Traversing-jack. Truck. Trunk. Turn out. Turn table. Underground-railway. Uno-rail. Water-crane. Water elevator for railways. Wire way. Wooden railway. Wrecking-car. on to another, when they form angles with eachotlif^r. A single V-shaped piece, or two such pieces, pointto point, are fixed toortbnu part of a phitu, tlieir uppersurfaces being iu li)ie with the rails of each track, soas to serve as a support and guide for the whetds asthey pass from one track to the other. A guard-railis aUo arranged on one or both sides of the angularpiece or point. In Fig. 4135, the frog-plate A, track-sections,guard-rails C\ and frog-ijoiat D are separate from. Railway-Frog. one another, and so constructed that the rail sections,guaid-rails, and frog-point can be inserted in or at-tached to and detached from the frog-plate. Railway-gage. The distance apart of the twolines of a railway, forming a track, measured betweenthe inner edges of the tread-ttanges. The gof/r of a carriage is the distance between thewheels. It is ordinarily called the track. One ofthese generally jnevails in a section of country, tothe exchision of the other. The broad track is 5feet or more from center to center of tire. The narrowtrack is Ah feet or less between the same 1. The wooden tramways of the collieries, before the inventionof the iron mil, bad a gage of 4 feet. The roadway was scant-ling. 5x7, pegged down to oak sleep
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