. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . etweenfaces of abutments, and a total height of305 ft. above mean high water. It carriesfour railway tracks on a heavily ballastedfloor. Apart from its great span and ca-pacity, its principal features are the ex- pression joints and the provision forheavy braking girders to relieve thefloor beams from stress caused by thebraking and friction forces. The designwas governed by rules and specificationsspecially prepared by the consulting engi-neer, Mr. G. Lindenthal, and among theiroriginal feat
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . etweenfaces of abutments, and a total height of305 ft. above mean high water. It carriesfour railway tracks on a heavily ballastedfloor. Apart from its great span and ca-pacity, its principal features are the ex- pression joints and the provision forheavy braking girders to relieve thefloor beams from stress caused by thebraking and friction forces. The designwas governed by rules and specificationsspecially prepared by the consulting engi-neer, Mr. G. Lindenthal, and among theiroriginal features is a new formula for im-pact which, in combination with apparent-ly high permissible unit stresses, is appli- nal name, was applied to the strait onaccount of whirlpools which made navi-gation at this point difficult if not actuallydangerous, and the latter, misinterpretedname has stuck. The Xew York Con-necting Railroad, built and owned jointlyby the Pennsylvania and the Xew York,New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-panies, forms an important link in theheart of Greater Xew York between the. HELL GATE BRIDGE, OF THE NEW YORK CONNECTING RAILROAD. ceptional size and weight of its individualmembers and riveted connections, the useof special high-carbon steel, the unusualmethod of erection, and the monumentaltowers forming the abutments, one of whichrests on a deep and difficultly made andplaced pneumatic caisson the details of special interest arethe compact closed section of the mainarch, the extraordinarily rigid bracing,the efficient latticing of the compressionmembers, the full splicing of the corn- cable to the design of bridges of anylength of span or any capacity, and se-cures in each case a well-proportionedstructure. The rather startling name applied tothe narrow pass in the East River atXew York began its career as a mildand quiet term. It comes from a Dutch(Holland) word Hellegate, the trans-lation of which is bright strait or clearopening. The Angli
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