. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . on*Construction, Fig. 45. The bermesshould not be robbed to secure material for slackembankments, they keep the water away fromthe roadbed and aid in drainage. Small repairs to embankments can be made bythe section gang cleaning ditches in the cuts andtaking the material with a push car to the pointit is needed on the embankment. When theslopes of embankments need extensive repairs itis cheaper to put on a work train or a gang withteams, p
. Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways, . on*Construction, Fig. 45. The bermesshould not be robbed to secure material for slackembankments, they keep the water away fromthe roadbed and aid in drainage. Small repairs to embankments can be made bythe section gang cleaning ditches in the cuts andtaking the material with a push car to the pointit is needed on the embankment. When theslopes of embankments need extensive repairs itis cheaper to put on a work train or a gang withteams, plows and scrapers if the embankment isnot over 6 to 8 feet high. This gang should takethe material from the ditch or on the outside ofthe ditch; under no circumstances should the 24 Vol. 13 434 BUILDING JiJTl) EEPAIItlJSO HjULWAYS. berme be disturbed. As the freezing of winterfollowed by the thawing and rains of springbrings down large quantities of material from theslopes of some cuts, various devices have beendesigned to aid in saving labor in removing 319 represents the American Railway Ditch-ing Machine, which is designed to do this Fig. 319. AMERICAN RAILWAY-DITCHING MACHINE. For cleaning and ditching mud cuts. For scraping in dry cuts after samehave been plowed. Simple in construction and economical in and easily handled; it can be quickly moved out of the way of pass-ing trains. Reversible, works either way without turning car or scrape both ditches at the same time. The buckets are used in thesame manner as an ordinary scraper. Directions for using the American Railway Ditching machine. —Ifpossible use an air-brake locomotive with this machine. See that slack be-tween car and engine is well taken up, so as to prevent unnecessary spring-hangers in the ordinary car, as the strain, at times,is quitesevere. This result can be accomplished by putting in additional as small a wheel on car as possibl
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