. American engineer and railroad journal . ated to take up the bending strains due to tractionand temperature. The transverse sway bracing was of adjustable rods, owing to the fact that the foundations rest onpiling, thus precluding the possibility of using stiff swaybracing, as a number of structures that have been built withstiff bracing, when the foundations were on piles, have been ACCIDENTS TO LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS ANDFIREMEN. The object of publishing this monthly list of accidents tolocomotive engineers and firemen is to make known the terri-ble sacrifice of life and limb that is constant
. American engineer and railroad journal . ated to take up the bending strains due to tractionand temperature. The transverse sway bracing was of adjustable rods, owing to the fact that the foundations rest onpiling, thus precluding the possibility of using stiff swaybracing, as a number of structures that have been built withstiff bracing, when the foundations were on piles, have been ACCIDENTS TO LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS ANDFIREMEN. The object of publishing this monthly list of accidents tolocomotive engineers and firemen is to make known the terri-ble sacrifice of life and limb that is constantly going on amongthis class of people, with the hope that such publication willin time indicate some of the causes of accidents of this kind,and help to lessen the awful amount of suffering due directlyand indirectly to them. If any one will aid us with informa-tion which will help to make our list more complete or cor-rect, or who will indicate the causes or the cures for any kindof accidents which occur, they will not only be doing us a. BRIDGE ON DULUTH, MISSABE & NORTHERN RAILWAY, BUILT BT THE YOUNGSTOWN BRIDGE COMPANY. found, in other parts of the country, to settle and render thestiff sway bracing of little service. Any slight settlement inthe foundations can be accounted for by the adjustable lat-erals. The other spans in the viaduct were built of the samegeneral design as this, except they were all deck, with stifflateral bracing and frames. Besides the viaduct proper, theYoungstown Bridge Company constructed for the road twogirder spans in the dock proper, and a 72-ft. girder span oncolumns on the line of the road. The Duluth, Missabe &Northern Railway, by means of this improvement, are enabledto haul the ore from the renowned Missabe Range to St. LouisBay over their own tracks the entire distance, and havefacilities for handling ore second to no road in the UnitedStates. favor, but will be aiding in accomplishing the object of pub-lishing this report, which is to less
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