. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ****^^a:iinT: FIG. I. LIDGERWOOD CAliLEWAY AT THE WACHUSETT DAM. Lidgerwood cableway, which carries the although the average width is a rock and other materials across the ravine than a mile. Within its confines being shown in Fig. i. This dam is 1,050 be 63,000,000,000 gallons of feet long and about 150 feet high; so that water, which will go through little lesstiiere willfirst-classa mason. SHEET PILE DRIVING ON THE DIKE. EXCAVATING FOR THE NORTH DIKE. attempt to show what is being done, ho
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ****^^a:iinT: FIG. I. LIDGERWOOD CAliLEWAY AT THE WACHUSETT DAM. Lidgerwood cableway, which carries the although the average width is a rock and other materials across the ravine than a mile. Within its confines being shown in Fig. i. This dam is 1,050 be 63,000,000,000 gallons of feet long and about 150 feet high; so that water, which will go through little lesstiiere willfirst-classa mason. SHEET PILE DRIVING ON THE DIKE. EXCAVATING FOR THE NORTH DIKE. attempt to show what is being done, howit is accomplished and the results to besecured. The dam for the reservoir is now beingbuilt at Clinton, Mass., a view of the it will be seen it is no small undertaking, acqueduct to the good people of Boston. and the dam alone will cost $1,700,000. 40 miles away. The average depth of the Back of this wall of mason work will be reservoir will be 46 feet and maximum the huge reservoir, nearly 854 miles long about 129 feet. When we remember that and over 2 miles wide at its widest part, this is in reality a huge lake, with two or December, 1901. RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING S
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