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  THE WAITING-ROOM IS THE MONUMENTAL AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF THE STATION,"--THE WAITING-ROOM OF THE UNION DEPOT AT TROY


id: 51158
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  | | | | | | | +----------+------------+------+---------+------+-----------+ Specifications for Train Order Form and Books for Operators


id: 51158
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  Safe in Unskilled Hands 13 Duplicate, Orders in 82 Enginemen, Signatures of 53, 68, 71 Expiration of Orders 89 Explanatory Rules


id: 45179
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  History of Automatic Electric and Electrically Controlled Fluid Pressure Signal Systems for Railroads


id: 46122
type: PERSON
entity:
  B. Pullman J. T. Lester H. J. MacFarland S. W. Doane Murray Nelson A. H. Burley C. K. Offield E. T. Jeffery Prof.


id: 46122
type: PERSON
entity:
  Swing W. K. Sullivan W. K. Ackerman A. C. Thomas J. McGregor Adams J. F. Studebaker P. E. Studebaker T. B. Blackstone Rev.


id: 46229
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  a Tram-engine.--Its Trial on the Merthyr Railroad.--Trevithick''s Improvements in the Steam-engine.--Attempts


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  The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature ELECTRICITY IN LOCOMOTION CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London


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id: 17569
title: The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
author: Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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  the New York City Central Underground Railway Company, to build a line incorporated as The New York City Rapid Transit Company, to build an pursuant to the plan, the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company of the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, assumed the general connected with the main power station at 58th and 59th Streets and the [Illustration: ROOF SHOWING CONCRETE-STEEL CONSTRUCTION--LENOX AVENUE [Illustration: SUPPORT OF ELEVATED RAILWAY STATION AT 42D STREET AND At 66th Street station the subway roof was about 2 feet from the [Illustration: SMALL WATER MAINS BETWEEN STREET SURFACE AND SUBWAY original five-section power house was 585 feet 9-1/2 inches, but the POWER HOUSE--GENERAL PLAN OF MAIN OPERATING [Illustration: MAIN CONTROLLING BOARD IN POWER STATION] [Illustration: CONTROL AND INSTRUMENT BOARD--MAIN POWER STATION] sub-stations from which power is supplied to the section, in the train General Electric Company, Motors, Power House and Sub-station


id: 40242
title: The Modern Railroad
author: Hungerford, Edward
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  engine and cars for a train--Clerical work of conductors--A trip Steamship lines under railroad control--Fleet of New York Central--Tugs--Railroad connections at New York harbor--Handling the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, his great lifework. Sometimes the construction engineer of the railroad brings his new line to-day it remains an important link in a busy trunk-line railroad. railroading off in some lonely way station on a branch line, developed railroad rebuilt its passenger terminal in an important city ten years ago CITY--THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD''S SCHEME AT NEW YORK AS AN CITY--THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD''S SCHEME AT NEW YORK AS AN railroad refuses to accept any more freight for the day, car-doors are The old-time engineer knew how to plan good railroads; the of the train-shed of a terminal, which is filled with long lines of cars club-house for railroad men at the great terminal of his road in New York


id: 33172
author: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Committee of Ten
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  elevated railroad tracks from lower Fulton Street, a new court house, new court house will be built on Center Street, yet the front door of corner of Court and Joralemon streets as a site for the new municipal court house, municipal building, bridge plaza and re-location of the four factors as presented in the Clinton Street court house site, This plan places the new court house on the site selected by the Hall of Records, the old court house and the new municipal building, WASHINGTON STREET SITE FOR COURT HOUSE This plan contemplates placing the new court house on Washington Street opposite the Post Office, and the new municipal building at the No other plan presents equally good sites for the new court house and 5. The location of the new court house on the present site of the old various centers--Washington Street to the Brooklyn Bridge, Court sites for Court House and Municipal Building_]

title:
  Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn


id: 51158
title: The Train Wire: A Discussion of the Science of Train Dispatching (Second Edition)
author: Anderson, John Alexander
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  practice to issue orders to inferior trains while a superior is held by a requires that _the order given to each train shall be a duplicate of that As, for instance, a train authorized by order to run in the time of This rule indicates the proper function of a Telegraphic Train Order, Rule 519.--An order to be delivered to a train at a point not a Rule 521.--Meeting-orders must not be sent for delivery to trains at Rule 524 (B)--A fixed signal must be used at each train-order office, Rule 524 (B)--A fixed signal must be used at each train-order office, An order giving a train the right to use a given number of minutes in time-table and train-rules or further orders. operation of the rules in time to clear the train of superior right. "Standard" rules to be used when the train order signal is operated on


id: 45179
author: American Railway Association
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  installations of automatic block signals controlled by track circuits. track circuit, its principle and operation under present day signaling signaling" because of his basic invention of the closed track circuit in all normally open circuit or wire systems of automatic signaling, Mr. Robinson had previously explained the new closed rail circuit The Robinson closed rail circuit, which now forms the basis, according the Robinson closed track circuit, as heretofore described, the relay magnet E, the signal C operated thereby, the circuit wires of said the Western division to examine the Robinson closed circuit rail closed rail circuit system of signaling on four different railroads, holes in every rail of long sections of track, he equipped a signal In 1872 I put the closed track circuit system of signaling in connections from the rails to the battery and relay of a track section that automatic signals controlled by continuous closed track circuits

title:
  The Invention of the Track Circuit The history of Dr. William Robinson''s invention of the track circuit, the fundamental unit which made possible our present automatic block signaling and interlocking systems


id: 46122
title: The Story of the Pullman Car
author: Husband, Joseph
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  Modern Pullman steel sleeping car ready for the night 146 Modern Pullman steel sleeping car during the day 146 Pullman car, an adaption of an ordinary day coach to sleeping In 1866 five Pullman sleeping cars were put in operation on the Chicago, The year 1867 marks the incorporation of Pullman''s Palace Car Company, the Pullman Company, and to which the "hotel cars" rapidly gave place. In the next few years the Pullman Palace Car Company established By the year 1879 Pullman sleeping and drawing room cars were in employed by the Pullman Company for illuminating railroad cars--a Company was to run its cars only over the New York Central Railroad. The installation of "hotel-car" service by the Pullman Company sang the to a new train, wholly composed of Pullman cars, which it is To give this service 7,500 cars of the Pullman [Illustration: Modern Pullman steel sleeping car during the day]


id: 46229
author: Smiles, Samuel
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  time is occupied in filling these, a plan has been contrived by Mr. Ramsbottom, the locomotive engineer of the London and Northwestern George Stephenson again appointed Engineer of the Railway.--Chat Moss described.--The resident Engineers of the Line.--George Stephenson''s Locomotive.--Steam-carriages tried on common Roads.--New Railway Stephenson afterward appointed Engineer.--The Railway Works under subject, and proceeded to make a self-moving road engine worked by THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE--GEORGE STEPHENSON BEGINS ITS IMPROVEMENT. THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE--GEORGE STEPHENSON BEGINS ITS IMPROVEMENT. years in all Stephenson''s locomotives employed in the working of the disused, while Stephenson''s Killingworth engines continue working to GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGINEER OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY. GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGINEER OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY. kind of power to be employed in working the railway, George Stephenson Eight locomotive engines, constructed at the Stephenson works, had Mr. Stephenson and his son, as the leading railway engineers of time when George Stephenson had first projected a railway through

title:
  The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive


id: 51242
title: Electricity in Locomotion An Account of Its Mechanism, Its Achievements, and Its Prospects
author: Whyte, Adam Gowens
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  contributed by engineers who worked in the general field of electrical dynamo they had the means of producing powerful electric currents, THE ESSENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC TRACTION ON TRAMWAYS a car to rest quickly; the electric motor enables speed to be regained numerous stops; and, with larger cars, the electric tramway is able to for the motors means less current generated at the power station--that electric traction--the combination of generating station, of cars section of a typical conduit system of electric tramway traction. cheaper means of electric traction than the tramway. tramways and on electric railways. electric generator which supplies current to a motor attached to the Railway to electric traction. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FROM THE ENGINEERING POINT OF VIEW ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FROM THE ENGINEERING POINT OF VIEW ELECTRIC TRACTION ON MAIN LINE RAILWAYS ELECTRIC TRACTION ON MAIN LINE RAILWAYS On tramways, automobiles, and ''third-rail'' lines, the electric current


id: 18747
author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
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  the rate of grade encountered in the practical operation of railways. the lengths of grade as abscissas and the percentages of weight utilized grades are light in both cases, this feature of train resistance is larger train on grades less than 10 miles in length than on longer grade (as in Item 15 of Table 1) the resistance would be, gravity Examining the items in the table having grades in excess of 10 miles, it In proportioning grade resistance for any line, therefore, a locomotive a 0.02 grade on which a locomotive may be loaded on a basis of tractive Thus the length of the grade, 2.44 miles, makes the tractive is a grade of the same rate, about 1 mile long, near this hill, and a using heavier rates of grade on shorter hills than 10 miles, and indeed grades for 9-3/4 miles, a 29-ton engine

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172


id: 18785
author: Various
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  OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON RAIL SECTIONS.[A] As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Association to the Rail Committee of The American Railway no specification for Open-Hearth Steel Rails, and in order to "We recommend that the present Specifications for Steel Rails be acceptable they were, as the members of all Rail Committees were present rails rolled, of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, and put in service "SPECIFICATIONS FOR STEEL RAILS.[E] "The percentage of carbon in an entire order of rails shall average The section of rail shall conform as accurately as possible to The standard length of rail shall be 33 ft. (_a_) Drop tests shall be made on pieces of rail rolled from (A) Two pieces shall be tested from each heat of steel. defect, the top rail from each ingot of that heat shall be rejected. "(_b_) For Bessemer Steel the Manufacturer shall, before the rails

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Final Report of Special Committee on Rail Sections, Paper No. 1177


id: 39926
title: "Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket" or, the story of the Stephensons and our Railways.
author: Knight, Helen C. (Helen Cross)
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  girls--curious quarters, one would think; but working men at that time George rapidly shot ahead of his father, a kind old man who always One man stopped the working of the engine when George took Those were dark days, however, for the working-men of England. and new things, great improvements as they may be on old ones, often In pondering upon the powers of "Puffing Billy," George Stephenson saw steam-carriages would some day come into use on common roads. long series of experiments George Stephenson said, "No, the thing The man was George Stephenson, and his friend was Nicholas Wood. "A locomotive engine is worth fifty horses," exclaimed Stephenson; and Manchester the astonishing news of men, horses, carts, and Stephenson George Stephenson was a happy man. What became of George Stephenson and his son Robert? George and Robert Stephenson took their rank among the great men of


