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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... never seen or heard anything further . Would like very much to hear from the officers of it , and to understand more fully their object , and would take an interest in it to promote its growth . As to the meeting taking place at St ...
... never seen or heard anything further . Would like very much to hear from the officers of it , and to understand more fully their object , and would take an interest in it to promote its growth . As to the meeting taking place at St ...
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... never use it , though , except when the ground is too hard to shovel , or where it is too wet to shovel . If we have to use a pick , I put a plow on . MR . PRESTON : I differ with you in regard to the ditch filling . up quicker when ...
... never use it , though , except when the ground is too hard to shovel , or where it is too wet to shovel . If we have to use a pick , I put a plow on . MR . PRESTON : I differ with you in regard to the ditch filling . up quicker when ...
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... never known but one way to lay them , and that is as near square across the track as you can get them . MR . PRESTON : And what distance apart ? MR . MOLL : That depends a very great deal upon the kind of ballast you have . If you have ...
... never known but one way to lay them , and that is as near square across the track as you can get them . MR . PRESTON : And what distance apart ? MR . MOLL : That depends a very great deal upon the kind of ballast you have . If you have ...
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... never use any other , but I am sorry to say that a great many of them are only seven feet and a half . I think ties should be squared up at both ends , either chopped square or sawed off , so as to make them eight feet long , to give an ...
... never use any other , but I am sorry to say that a great many of them are only seven feet and a half . I think ties should be squared up at both ends , either chopped square or sawed off , so as to make them eight feet long , to give an ...
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... prairies in gauge . MR . PRESTON : Mr. Moll , in your experience with oak , or cedar , or any other ties that you have on the Milwaukee road , would you use an eight or nine - foot tie ? MR . MOLL : I never have had any experience 27.
... prairies in gauge . MR . PRESTON : Mr. Moll , in your experience with oak , or cedar , or any other ties that you have on the Milwaukee road , would you use an eight or nine - foot tie ? MR . MOLL : I never have had any experience 27.
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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...