. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . we know of. These piles were madeof 2-inch planking, spiked together inthree thicknesses, with the center one pro-truding about 2 inches to form a tongueon the face and a corresponding grooveon the back of each pile. The bottom ofthe pile was shaped off as shown in theillustration, and had a plate bolted on,which carried the hose connection hose communicated with a hole downin the end of the planking, and water wasforced down the pipe to wash out a holefor the pile as it was forced
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . we know of. These piles were madeof 2-inch planking, spiked together inthree thicknesses, with the center one pro-truding about 2 inches to form a tongueon the face and a corresponding grooveon the back of each pile. The bottom ofthe pile was shaped off as shown in theillustration, and had a plate bolted on,which carried the hose connection hose communicated with a hole downin the end of the planking, and water wasforced down the pipe to wash out a holefor the pile as it was forced down by thepile-driver. When the pile was drivenhome, the hose was pulled up by the smallwire rope shown and was then attached tothe next pile. The length of these pilescan be judged from the cut showing thepile-driver in the sand cut with piles readyto be driven. This also shows the methodof building up the piles. This sheet pilingforms a solid wall and prevents the watereating down under the banks to weakenthem and cause damage and disaster infuture years. The dike, however, was but a small part. HYDRAULIC ATTACHMENT FOR DRIVING SHEET PILES. of this work, for while this was a deep cut,there remained the stripping of the entiresurface of the reservoir to an average depthof I foot—this to remove all decayed vege-tation that may have been accumulatingfor years. This is one of the many precau-tions for a healthful water supply, and this This portion of the work is being doneby Nawn & Brock, of Boston, who nowhave a total of over 93,000 feet of track,including sidings. Over 25,000 feet of thisis double track, narrow gage. They havethirteen locomotives, eight being 12-tonand the remainder 16-ton, mostly built by SI2 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING December, 1901. Porter and the Vulcan people. These en-gines pull about 100 trains a day, varyingfrom ten to twenty cars each. Each carhas a capacity of 3^2 cubic yards of methods are employed for get-ting the earth int
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