. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . rancis Lee Stuart, Chief Engineer,at Deer Park Operating Meeting ^ Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: There are a number of things on theMagnolia Cut-off which have been welldone, and I want to tell you about themfor the sake of the construction men. Our contractors did, or we had themdo, four things which have not been donebefore, so far as I know. The first was the construction of thebenches for the protection of the far as I know, there is no road in theUnited States today that has gone to thisextent to protect its tracks. Owing to our geologica
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . rancis Lee Stuart, Chief Engineer,at Deer Park Operating Meeting ^ Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: There are a number of things on theMagnolia Cut-off which have been welldone, and I want to tell you about themfor the sake of the construction men. Our contractors did, or we had themdo, four things which have not been donebefore, so far as I know. The first was the construction of thebenches for the protection of the far as I know, there is no road in theUnited States today that has gone to thisextent to protect its tracks. Owing to our geological formation through allthe cuts, we have made one or twobenches, depending on the height, tolessen pressure on the slopes and to try toprevent sudden large slides. We startedout with from twenty to thirty-footbenches; we expected to lose some ofthem, and we did, but I think we have avery good protection and something thatwill save us money as long as the roadexists. Second: We used a steam shovel inthe heading of a tunnel to expedite the. DOE GULLY CUT, CLEARLY SHOWING THE BENCHING OF ROCK CLIFFS TO PREVENT SLIDES 20 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE work. As far as I know, it was the firsttime that such a machine had been usedabove the bench in driving a tunnel. Third: We used, for the first time,steel I-beams for segments instead of thewooden ones which have heretofore beenused in tunnels. This enabled the con-tractor to make his excavation a closer fit problem on account of the restrictedspace in which we had to work, and thenecessity of not burdening the operatingdepartment or interfering with their flowof traffic. A steel form about one hun-dred feel long was devised, with derrickson top, and with a solid top, rigged upto run on rails, and straddling the op-
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