. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 00 miles, I found all the trains tern is operated by 124 first-class locomo-tives and cars. Key West, which is known as theGibraltar of America, was aimed at lie-cause of its fine climate and valuableCuban trade; but to reach the place in-volved immense engineering the idea of extending the EastCoast Railway to Key West first occurredto Mr. Flagler, he consulted one of the May, 1915. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 173 most accomplished engineers on the con-tinent co
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 00 miles, I found all the trains tern is operated by 124 first-class locomo-tives and cars. Key West, which is known as theGibraltar of America, was aimed at lie-cause of its fine climate and valuableCuban trade; but to reach the place in-volved immense engineering the idea of extending the EastCoast Railway to Key West first occurredto Mr. Flagler, he consulted one of the May, 1915. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 173 most accomplished engineers on the con-tinent concerning the obstacles to beovercome. The estimate made of the ex-pense of the enterprise was immense, buton studying the figures Mr. Flagler saidgo ahead, and there the principal part of the enterprise was which has a basis of silicon. This Flor-ida sand has been formed from marineshells and has a basis of calcium or lime-stone. When this sand is fertilized itproduces good crops of various kindswhich give the country a fertile course, the Southern States are in-. TYPICAI. WOOD BURNING LOCOMOTIVE. the construction of a railway 114 milesover sea-swept coral islets. Special ma-chinery was designed for the work andit was carried out very the mainland and Key West thegreater portion of the islets were foundso close together that the sea stretcheswere never long. Between some of theislets the water was found to be so shal-low as to enable an earthen embankmentto be constructed. But at some places awater gap would be found very wide anddeep, demanding trestling, masonry via-ducts and steel bridges. Fortunately theengineer was spared a tedious search forsuitable foundation which is invariably as-sociated with sub-aqueous work, becausethe sea bed in that region is formed ofhard coral rock. The Key West extension of the FloridaEast Coast Railway is one of the greatestengineering enterprises the world hasever seen, and forms a most
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