. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . MAP OF THE VICTORIA FALLS SHOWING POSITION OF THE RAILWAY BRIDGE. each. The cost of the bridge was about£70,000 or equal to about $340,000 of ourmoney. The contract for this bridge wasgiven Cleveland Bridge and Engi-neering Company, Ltd., of Darlington,England, by the Rhodeasia Railways, Ltd. engineer in charge of the work for thecontractors. The upper end of thevertical shore posts were providedwith long steel pins 7 ins. in diam-eter. Around these pins U-shaped piecesof iron were pla
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . MAP OF THE VICTORIA FALLS SHOWING POSITION OF THE RAILWAY BRIDGE. each. The cost of the bridge was about£70,000 or equal to about $340,000 of ourmoney. The contract for this bridge wasgiven Cleveland Bridge and Engi-neering Company, Ltd., of Darlington,England, by the Rhodeasia Railways, Ltd. engineer in charge of the work for thecontractors. The upper end of thevertical shore posts were providedwith long steel pins 7 ins. in diam-eter. Around these pins U-shaped piecesof iron were placed, and near their thread- THE CAPE-TO-CAIRO RAILWAY AS IT IS TO-DAY. to the anchorage. Pollowing one of these cables, we maysay that the shore end was drawn alongthe bank some distance and the end waspassed down a sloping tunnel cut in therock about 30 ft. long. At the bottom ofthis tunnel or shaft a horizontal tunnelat right angles to the first, was driventhrough the rock for about 30 ft. and atthe far end an inclined shaft, similar inslope and direction to the first, lead up tothe surface. Th
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