Identifier: buildingrepairin01kirk (find matches)
Title: Building and repairing railways ... : Forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of The science of railways,
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kirkman, Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe), 1842-1921
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York and Chicago : The World railway publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 21. TRANSPARENT PROTRACTOR WITH RAILROAD CURVES.
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Fig. 22. ENGINEERS Y LEVEL.For taking elevations and establishing benches. high water during freshets; and the elevation ofthe beds of the streams which will enable cross I THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY, 65 sections of the stream to be platted; the placingof benches at proper intervals and the correctelevation of them. The leveling party will require the following(a) a level (Fig. 22), (h) two Philadelphialeveling rods (Fig. 23), (c) one Chester-mans fifty-foot metallic tape, (c?) nails touse in benches, (e) a hand axe with leathercase and belt, (/) level books, (^g) lead pen-cils, hard and medium, (A) profile paper(i) kiel pencils, (y) India ink and ink slaband carmine blue and neutral tint watercolors, (k) scratch blocks. The topographical party is most variablein its composition. Sometimes it is repre-sented by the notes taken by the locatingengineer and transitman, and at othertimes it may consist of a level man, rodman,chainman, and axeman. The topographicalparty is responsible for the

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