. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SHOWING THE WATER 3V THE HEIGHT ONE OF THE INCLINE RAILWAYS—BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD IN FOREGROUND. reached, and every precaution is taken tohave the filling as solid as possible. Be-hind the dike in one place they have filledin for half a mile, so that it seems impos-sible that there should ever be a leak or abreak. The engineers for this work are amongthe best that could be obtained, Mr. Richardson and Mt. Hiram A. Millerbeing in charge, and they have very com- the S
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SHOWING THE WATER 3V THE HEIGHT ONE OF THE INCLINE RAILWAYS—BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD IN FOREGROUND. reached, and every precaution is taken tohave the filling as solid as possible. Be-hind the dike in one place they have filledin for half a mile, so that it seems impos-sible that there should ever be a leak or abreak. The engineers for this work are amongthe best that could be obtained, Mr. Richardson and Mt. Hiram A. Millerbeing in charge, and they have very com- the Swift. Westfield and Deerfield can beadded, which will give a supply for acenturj- to come. Nature has favoredthem in this, and their engineers werebright enough to take advantage of thecombination oflfered. The cost of the soil stripping is esti-mated at $3,000,000; the relocating ofroads and rebuilding them, $250,000, andthe dikes. $656,000. This docs not include RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1902. the moving of the tracks of the Massa-chusetts Central Railroad (operated by theBoston & Maine), which, as it includes anumb
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