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Identifier: ourironroads00will Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1883">1883 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWilliams__Frederick_Smeeton__1829_1886">Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886 Subjects: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____History">Railroads -- History https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____Great_Britain">Railroads -- Great Britain Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___Bemrose___sons">London : Bemrose & sons Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries">University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n148/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/ourironroads00will" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n148/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: e full intended width, for material subsequently added doesnot readily unite with the original mass. If additions becomey the side of the bank is, perhaps, stepped. Anembankment is sometimes commenced from two directions,which at last unite in the middle. A train of wagons being THE TIP. 129 brought on to the part of the embankment already finished,preparations are made to empty them. A tramroad hasalready been formed to the end of the bank, and at its extremeverge a stout piece of timber is secured to prevent the wagonswhen their contents are discharged, from being precipitatedover it. One of the trucks is then detached from the train,and being brought within a few hundred yards of the end ofthe embankment, the horse that draws it is made to trot andthen to gallop, so as to give the required impetus to his loadThe uninitiated observer fancies that both horse and drivermust be killed, or hurled over the embankment; but whenthey have approached very near to the edge, the driver loosens Text Appearing After Image: the horse from the wagon, gives him a signal which he hasbeen taught to obey, both leap aside with the greatest celerity,and the wagon alone rushes on till it is suddenly stopped atthe end of the embankment by the piece of timber, and theshock makes the hinder part tip up and discharge the load.The horse is immediately brought up again and hooked on,the truck rights itself, and is drawn away to form part ofthe empty train which will soon return to the cutting. If theworks of the railway are proceeding with moderate rapidity,two lines of rails, and two or three sets of wagons, horses,and men, are simultaneously at work. Care is of coursenecessary that the elevation of the embankment be rightly K oiK [RON ROADS. this is ensured by the erection of posts at intervalsline, fitted with cross pieces that indicate the height When the general outline of the embankment has thus beengiven, it is trimmed SO as to have the required uniformity oftrance, and the necessary material is conveyed to the Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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