An American railroad builder, John Murray Forbes

Pearson Henry Greenleaf 1870-

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LIBRARY THEOF California.ofUniversity Class AlSr AlVIEEICAN EAILEOAD BUILDER JOHN MURRAY FORBES ^ cr ». 3 a - > - ), J BOSTON AND NEW YORK MIFFLIN COMPANYHOUGHTON 1911 e — v^ PEARSONHENRY GREENLEAF191 BYCOPYRIGHT, 1, RESERVEDRIGHTSALL October iqijPublished « • 1i it V * * Railroads in Illinois,^ Imliiiiia, Oliio and Mieliigan tH [With fumieL'tioiistoNew YorkJ at Hie end of 1852 RAILROAD 31THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL fastened strips of iron half an inchwhich were wide. Thethick by two and a quarter inches were fastened to cross-ties laid three feetbeams laid upon under-sills,apart^ which in turn were " blocksthe whole being supported upon short according to theof different lengths, varying distancebetween the bottom of the under-sills and ^foundation." the first thirty miles outa firm On whichof Detroit the wooden part of the track, been in for eight years, had never beenhad use renewed, and was naturally much decayed. The broken, curved up at theiron, worn out and ends; and when one of these up-springing pieces thrust itself through the floor of the car between the feet of a passenger, it was expressivelyknown " form track, bestas a snake-head." Such a of "described by the phrase a barrel-hoop tacked passing and the charterto a lath," was already ; new required the road to beof the company weighing sixtyheavyH rail of iron,laid with a pounds a yard.

Sujets

• Forbes
• Rail transport
• United States

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
MIFFLIN COMPANYHOUGHTON
1911e
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PEARSONHENRY GREENLEAF191 BYCOPYRIGHT, 1,
RESERVEDRIGHTSALL
October iqijPublished
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