. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. ich were supposed to be, parexcellence, the highest type possible to the science of engine-building. And every part of railroad construction has kept thesame pace. The cars used fifty years ago held but ten tons,while those of to-day carry fifty-five tons. Thirty years ago themaximum train capacity was about 300 tons, or 10,000 bushelsof wheat; to-day, with improved roadbed, heavy steel rails, en-larged cars, and mogul engines, the maximum capacity is 2700tons, or 90,000 bushels of wheat. In 1835 the maximum speedwas abo
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. ich were supposed to be, parexcellence, the highest type possible to the science of engine-building. And every part of railroad construction has kept thesame pace. The cars used fifty years ago held but ten tons,while those of to-day carry fifty-five tons. Thirty years ago themaximum train capacity was about 300 tons, or 10,000 bushelsof wheat; to-day, with improved roadbed, heavy steel rails, en-larged cars, and mogul engines, the maximum capacity is 2700tons, or 90,000 bushels of wheat. In 1835 the maximum speedwas about twelve miles an hour, to-day trains have maintainedan average speed of forty-five miles an hour from New York toChicago; and the Pennsylvania or Pittsburg & Lake Erie Rail-way trains, such as the Limited or the Cleveland Flyer, areoften rushing through the Beaver valley at the rate of seventy-five or eighty miles an hour. It would be an interesting sightif we could see that first train that went through in 1851 stand-ing alongside of one of these trains de ^TT^H^Bjl %r-rnw *J mm
Size: 946px × 2643px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1904
