. The railroad and engineering journal . ds, but itis found that it is not often necessary to take 16 cars at atrip. At each end of the deck the two tracks unite inone which, at the landing, corresponds with that on thelanding stage. When the cars have been run upon the deck they aresecured by means of clamps, one end of which is fastenedto the buffer and the other to the rail. A screw attachedto the clamp permits sufhcicnt tension to be put on toprevent the cars from moving. Where there is only a single track upon the deck, as inthe boats used at the Little Belt ferry, the embarkation ofthe c
. The railroad and engineering journal . ds, but itis found that it is not often necessary to take 16 cars at atrip. At each end of the deck the two tracks unite inone which, at the landing, corresponds with that on thelanding stage. When the cars have been run upon the deck they aresecured by means of clamps, one end of which is fastenedto the buffer and the other to the rail. A screw attachedto the clamp permits sufhcicnt tension to be put on toprevent the cars from moving. Where there is only a single track upon the deck, as inthe boats used at the Little Belt ferry, the embarkation ofthe cars is very easily managed, as they are simply drawnupon the boat by the steam capstans. The use of the twotracks on the larger boats, however, requires some care inmanoeuvering the cars upon the curves near the ends, asone of the buffers might escape from contact with thebuffer on the preceding car. To avoid accidents and de-railments, the buffers at the rear of each car are coveredduring the loading with a strong wooden beam, making a. CROSS FERRY-BOAT NVBORG. continuous surface upon which the buffer of the followingcar can bear without any danger of slipping out of contact. As a general rule, these boats carry only the ireight-cars, the baggage and the mail cars and special cars (such asthe private cars of the royal family and others). Passen-gers descend from the train, which is run upon a switchclose to the dock, and enter the cabin of the boat; whenthe passage is over they enter another train which waitsfor them at the landing. The crossing of the Great Beltlasts an hour and a quarter, usually, and delay is very rare,even in bad weather. The service at the Little Belt is carried on by twosmaller ferry-boats named Hjahnar and Ingeborg, whichwere built in the Shickatt ship-yards at Elbiiig in general pattern of these boats is very similar to thelarger ones, but they are only 164 ft. in length on deck andare provided with a single track only. The mo
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