The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways: An Analysis of the Conditions Controlling the Laying Out of Railways in Effect this Most Judicious Expenditure of Capital |
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... AMERICAN RAILWAY SYSTEM , THIS ATTEMPT TO IM- PROVE UPON THEIR PRACTICE IS ADMIRINGLY INSCRIBED , IN TOKEN OF RESPECT FOR THEIR FAR - SIGHTED SAGACITY AND STILL UNEQUALLED SKILL . PREFACE . ONLY in a very figurative sense can this.
... AMERICAN RAILWAY SYSTEM , THIS ATTEMPT TO IM- PROVE UPON THEIR PRACTICE IS ADMIRINGLY INSCRIBED , IN TOKEN OF RESPECT FOR THEIR FAR - SIGHTED SAGACITY AND STILL UNEQUALLED SKILL . PREFACE . ONLY in a very figurative sense can this.
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... respect to their general route and system of gradients , and all of them in respect to the minor details of alignment , and in many cases these errors are shockingly evident . . . . In the care taken in this respect we are not advancing ...
... respect to their general route and system of gradients , and all of them in respect to the minor details of alignment , and in many cases these errors are shockingly evident . . . . In the care taken in this respect we are not advancing ...
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... respect to the assumed need for a railway , although they may be un- fortunate , can rarely be ruinous ; while it has again and again . been proven that if good judgment be not shown in the details of the route and expenditure , no ...
... respect to the assumed need for a railway , although they may be un- fortunate , can rarely be ruinous ; while it has again and again . been proven that if good judgment be not shown in the details of the route and expenditure , no ...
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... respect - his danger is a double one : that he will give undue weight to purely engineering questions as against commercial and pecuni- ary advantages ; or , vice versa , that the desire to reach such and such a town or make such and ...
... respect - his danger is a double one : that he will give undue weight to purely engineering questions as against commercial and pecuni- ary advantages ; or , vice versa , that the desire to reach such and such a town or make such and ...
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... respect between railway property and any other real estate is that the nature of its origin as a creature of the State justi- fies a demand that its monopoly powers shall not be used op- pressively , to charge more than a fair ...
... respect between railway property and any other real estate is that the nature of its origin as a creature of the State justi- fies a demand that its monopoly powers shall not be used op- pressively , to charge more than a fair ...
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actual additional adhesion American amount assumed average axle boiler brakes cars cause centrifugal force cents per train-mile Class coal coefficient of friction computed considerable consumption curvature curve resistance cylinder decrease degree of curvature difference distance drivers effect engine repairs estimate expenditure fact feet flange freight trains friction fuel given gradients greater haul heavy important increase labor length less limits load locomotive long ton loss maintenance maximum mile run mileage miles per hour nearly number of trains operating expenses passenger trains Pennsylvania Railroad percentage practice pressure probably profit proportion pusher radius railway rate of grade ratio receipts reduce revenue rise and fall rolling friction ruling grade ruling gradient Southern Railway speed station statistics steam superelevation Table tangent tender tion tons total cost track tractive power traffic train resistance train wages train-load truck vary velocity vertical wear weight wheel-base wheels
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