. Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States . idge, at Graftcn, Va. Plate XIV. 231 Tyrone and Clearfield Railroad location, . 53,59 u. Union Pacific Railroad, .Upsetting of iron for bridge-work, 5*. 52i73 V. Ventilation and drainage of tunnels, ..... 104 Viaduct on New Haven. Middletown, and Willi mantic Railroad, 291 on Xew York and Oswego Midland Railroad, . • 2S7 Victoria Bridge, coffer-dams at. . • • • 3*3 Verrugas Viaduct. Lima and Oroya Railway, .
. Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States . idge, at Graftcn, Va. Plate XIV. 231 Tyrone and Clearfield Railroad location, . 53,59 u. Union Pacific Railroad, .Upsetting of iron for bridge-work, 5*. 52i73 V. Ventilation and drainage of tunnels, ..... 104 Viaduct on New Haven. Middletown, and Willi mantic Railroad, 291 on Xew York and Oswego Midland Railroad, . • 2S7 Victoria Bridge, coffer-dams at. . • • • 3*3 Verrugas Viaduct. Lima and Oroya Railway, . • • 29°Virginia Central Railway, ...... 61, 406 w. Warren, or Triangular girder, Weight ol paying and of non-paying loads on railways, Weights and dimensions of cars, 196-198 451-453411, 412 570 INDEX. Weights of various materials, ...... 464,465 Welding of iron, . . . * . 17S Wheels for railway cars, ....... 413 coning of, ...... 370,371, Whipples Bridge, strains in. . . . 194. 19^ White Mountain Notch, railway location at, . . 54~58 Whitworths screws, table of, . . . 469 Wind, effect of, upon bridges, ..... 278 A NEW REVISED MANUAL Railroad Engineers ENGINEERING STUDENTS, CONTAINING The Rules and Tables needed for the Location, Construction andEquipment of Railroads as built in the United States, By GEORGE L. VOSE, Professor of Civil Engineering in Bowdoin College. Crown 8vo, with one hundred and sixty fine woodcuts, thirty-one largePlates, engraved on Wood. Price, $ :lh:~e and shepard, 41-45 Franklin Street, BOSTON. RECOMMENDATIONS OF Voses Manual for Railroad Engineers. It will prove to be the best treatise of a practical character that has yet been published, both inits text and its illustrations. It is exceedingly thorough and well arranged. Benj. H. Latrobe, Consulting Engineer. I have examined the book with considerable care, and think it a work of great usefulness, andone which cannot fail of being a favorite with engineers. Jas. B.
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