. The Street railway journal . each end, which passes around thegrooved winding drums of the motor-driven hauling machiney atthe top of the mountain, where the power house is located. The character of the car trucks is indicated by one of the illus-trations. To permit the wheels to cross the cable at the ends ofthe turnout, where the ascending and descending cars pass, thewheel on one end of each of the axles is without a flange, perfect-ly flat of face, although it runs on ordinary T-rail. The wheel atthe other end of the axle is double flanged or grooved, to straddlethe rail, serving as a tr
. The Street railway journal . each end, which passes around thegrooved winding drums of the motor-driven hauling machiney atthe top of the mountain, where the power house is located. The character of the car trucks is indicated by one of the illus-trations. To permit the wheels to cross the cable at the ends ofthe turnout, where the ascending and descending cars pass, thewheel on one end of each of the axles is without a flange, perfect-ly flat of face, although it runs on ordinary T-rail. The wheel atthe other end of the axle is double flanged or grooved, to straddlethe rail, serving as a traction guide, the cable running on pulleywheels in the centre of the track, as in other cable railways. The weight of the cable alone is about 3 tons, and in order toobviate as much as possible the varying load which would ordi-narily be caused by the shifting weight of the moving cable, thedisposition of the grades was made such that the excess of the pullof one car over that of the other car is just sufficient to balance the. GENERAL VIEW OF MT. BEACON INCLINE RAILWAY tingly concludes a sail of sixty miles up the incomparableHudson to Fishkill Landing. From this point there is a trolleyline to the station of the incline railway at the base of the moun-tain. This incline railway—an interesting and remarkably sub-stantial piece of engineering work—extends from the base to thetop of the mountain, a distance of 2,200 feet, rising at times at therate of sixty-five feet in a hundred feet of length. The extremesteepness of the grade is delightfully suggestive of the possibili-ties of aerial navigation. Apart from its scenic revelations, the operating and constructivefeatures of the road itself are of engineering interest, and warranta brief description. In the construction of the track heavy mudsill timbers wereplaced crosswise 6 ft. apart and carefully ballasted with rock. Tothese mudsills are bolted heavy 6-in. x 10-in. yellow pine string-ers 30 ft. to 40 ft. in length, and th
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