Reports Adopted by the Roadmasters Association of America: And Papers Accepted at the Conventions from 1883 to 1893, Inclusive, Volumes 1-8List of memberrs in 12th- |
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... ballast ? MR . MCQUISTON : No ; we have stone and gravel . MR . HAYWARD : Mr. President , on the subject of ditching I would state , that I have never known a road that was ditched sufficiently . There is not enough ditching done . If ...
... ballast ? MR . MCQUISTON : No ; we have stone and gravel . MR . HAYWARD : Mr. President , on the subject of ditching I would state , that I have never known a road that was ditched sufficiently . There is not enough ditching done . If ...
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... ballast of any kind . In forming my ditch , I commence at the ends of the ties , and slope from there to the ditch . I make a box ditch at least two feet wide on the top and eighteen inches at the bottom , and make it seven feet from ...
... ballast of any kind . In forming my ditch , I commence at the ends of the ties , and slope from there to the ditch . I make a box ditch at least two feet wide on the top and eighteen inches at the bottom , and make it seven feet from ...
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... ballast , and I recommend breaking the rock out eighteen inches over the end of the ties and filling in , but not filling in the center of the track as high as I do in mud , or gravel , but I fill at the ends of the ties . As the rock ...
... ballast , and I recommend breaking the rock out eighteen inches over the end of the ties and filling in , but not filling in the center of the track as high as I do in mud , or gravel , but I fill at the ends of the ties . As the rock ...
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... ballast you have . If you have a fine ballast and are running heavy engines , I should say twenty inches from center to center ; from eighteen to twenty . MR . PRESTON : Regardless of the size of the tie ? MR . MOLL : Depends to a ...
... ballast you have . If you have a fine ballast and are running heavy engines , I should say twenty inches from center to center ; from eighteen to twenty . MR . PRESTON : Regardless of the size of the tie ? MR . MOLL : Depends to a ...
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... ballast . On a mud track they break in two in the center in the spring of the year when the frost is going out . You ... ballast , gravel ballast , and mud ? MR . MOLL : I could not tell you anything about stone ballast . I don't think I ...
... ballast . On a mud track they break in two in the center in the spring of the year when the frost is going out . You ... ballast , gravel ballast , and mud ? MR . MOLL : I could not tell you anything about stone ballast . I don't think I ...
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Page 73 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 73 - Jose, duly seconded, it was voted that the Report of the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution and...
Page 24 - The President : You have heard the report of the Committee. What is the pleasure of the Association in reference to it.
Page 52 - ... and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of this Association be instructed to send a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States...
Page 52 - Industry," which was discussed by Messrs. Morrison, Morris, De Camp, Coggeshall, and Whipple ; and a resolution based upon the paper was adopted, to the effect that a committee of five be appointed by the president to report at the next...
Page 131 - The next thing in order is the report of the Committee on Resolutions.
Page 132 - Davis then introduced the following resolution : "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the President...