. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Camyel Peh, SIBERIAN RAILROAD—USUAL TYPE OF WOOD BRIDGE IN FORESTS (ERECTED LONGBEFORE grading).. Dpezdoba. phot., Ekatepinbypr. lAIA bridge, CENTRAL SECTION, TRANS-SIBERIAN. territory, , 80 rubls per month ($40).with free quarters. BRIDGES AND RELIGION. Another brief curio, and I am throughwith bridges. At each end of all the bigl^ridges there is the encased picture of asaint, with oil-lamps always burning, front-ed (on the outside) with a capacious bowlfor receiving t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Camyel Peh, SIBERIAN RAILROAD—USUAL TYPE OF WOOD BRIDGE IN FORESTS (ERECTED LONGBEFORE grading).. Dpezdoba. phot., Ekatepinbypr. lAIA bridge, CENTRAL SECTION, TRANS-SIBERIAN. territory, , 80 rubls per month ($40).with free quarters. BRIDGES AND RELIGION. Another brief curio, and I am throughwith bridges. At each end of all the bigl^ridges there is the encased picture of asaint, with oil-lamps always burning, front-ed (on the outside) with a capacious bowlfor receiving the offerings of the train passes, the people cross them-selves, and some carefully toss small coininto the bowl—the reduced speed of thetrain (8 to 10 verstas per hour) permittingthis. The enginemen and train-crew also Mockba, and will not return for a week!was the reply. And I have often since wondered whatmoral effect that engineers religion hadon him. This engineer complained to me of thepoor wages paid section engineers—abouf120 rubls monthly, equal to $60;and how he had to even findhis uniform out of that, and otherwisekeep up a ruinous dressy appearance,as when responding to social invita
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