. The railroad and engineering journal . ke the greatest dis-tance lietween water stations 19 miles, which, with anaverage speed of 16 miles an hour, would permit the run-ning of seven daily trains each way ; but the sidings orpassing places at present are placed 33 miles apart, per-mitting the running of three trains only each day. Incase, however, more trains should be needed, additionalsidings can easily be put in. The level sections have the ruling grade per cent and of per cent, and minimum radius of curvature 1,050 ft.—were applied to the sections from Achinsk to Kras-noiarsk ; f
. The railroad and engineering journal . ke the greatest dis-tance lietween water stations 19 miles, which, with anaverage speed of 16 miles an hour, would permit the run-ning of seven daily trains each way ; but the sidings orpassing places at present are placed 33 miles apart, per-mitting the running of three trains only each day. Incase, however, more trains should be needed, additionalsidings can easily be put in. The level sections have the ruling grade per cent and of per cent, and minimum radius of curvature 1,050 ft.—were applied to the sections from Achinsk to Kras-noiarsk ; from Krasnoiarsk to Nijne-Oudinsk, and fromOukhtouisK to Polovinnaia, making a total of 503 miles,all in very rough mountain country. At each end ofeach of these sections is located a division station withengine-houses. The Yenesei River is crossed near Kras-noiarsk. The location of the line from Achinsk to Irkoutsk wasvery difficult, since the line, following a general directionto east and southeast, was obliged to cross the ridges or. LOCATED LINE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN RAILROAD. the minimum radius of curvature 1,750 ft., although atsome points the gradient was increased to o 9 per cent.,but on this grade the minimum radius of curvature wasnot in use. This condition satislies the requirement thata train of 30 freight cars, weighing about 300 tons, can behauled by one standard 36-ton engine. The first section from Tomsk to Achinsk, as alreadystated, was a level section, but the branch extending fromthe Tomsk Station to the port or landing on the TomRiver has grades of per cent,, with curves of S40 1,050 ft. radius. The conditions of the mountainsections—limiting grades ranges dividing the valleys of the Siberian rivers, whichhere all (low from the Saian Mountains, and run north-ward in the same direction as the ranges ol hills whichseparate them. On this part of the line there are 15 ofthese divides, some of them rising to a height of 980 the valleys. W
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