. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ALASKA RAILROAD. front of it when the lowest tide level isreached. It will be readily understood, of the 42 feet of tidaldifference, that loading and unloading willnot always occur under the same condi-tions Whatever crane or the like is in-stalled to put on and take off freightshould he of the kind that can make the42-foot change in its vertical reach. Thegrab bucket is very well suited to greatchanges in the level to which it must helowered. We may, when we visit An- of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ALASKA RAILROAD. front of it when the lowest tide level isreached. It will be readily understood, of the 42 feet of tidaldifference, that loading and unloading willnot always occur under the same condi-tions Whatever crane or the like is in-stalled to put on and take off freightshould he of the kind that can make the42-foot change in its vertical reach. Thegrab bucket is very well suited to greatchanges in the level to which it must helowered. We may, when we visit An- of trouble. In a section about half-wayl» tween Seward and Fairbanks, there wasai many places 2- \ feet of snow as lateas April. In fact, section-men could notpush north from this region until in Indian River, near Broad Pas-, therewas, in April. 5 feet of snow. It will beunderstood that the accumulations of snowarc either going to slide fir melt. In eithergood deal of trouble may example, further north, on the farside of the mountains, the Nenana Riverbed received more flood than. HOPS KIT l-\ II V COMPLETED ON Till: VLASKA RAILROAD wharf l.(XX) feel long. The moleon the north is to be wide enough on topto carry three standard-gage railwaytracks. The construction of the wharf andappurtenances has to lake into accountSome unusual features. When the problems raised by conditions are fullj met,the railroad will have a very good and ef-ficient tidewater terminal much closer toFairbanks and the coal fields than of the problems that has to be solved expect to see Matanuska coal puton board ships by ibis device. Naturally,the harbor works have to be constructedduring the short favorable season. The route of the railway from Sewardto Fairbanks is. in general, a northerl)one. Hut there are, naturally, deviations at various points. After the road has cut across the Kenai Peninsula fromSeward, it strikes the inner end of an1 xtension of Cook Inlet called Turnag
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