Identifier: railwayage44newy (find matches)
Title: Railway age
Year: 1870 (1870s)
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Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York (etc.) R.G. Lewis (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The drainage and masonry protection of cuts through water-bearing ground is carried out on a much more enduring and ex-pensive scale in Europe and some European possessions than inthe Initcd States. The photographs show the summit cut in thePurrah hills on the Nagda-Muttra Statt* R.iilway. India. The maxi-mum depth of the cut Is 3S ft. It is through boulderclay or treach-erous yellow clay, mingled with black iKittom soil. When it wtisfirst excavated, water ran through it for some morths In a stream,owing to percolation from the neighboring hills, and a man wouldsink up to his waist in the slushy soil. Continuous drains 3 ii.X 3 ft., a mile long, have been made through the whole cut. witha ballast wall on one side and a massive revetment wall of drystone on the other side. Both the revetment walls and ballastwalls are amply provided with weep-holes, and are founded on abed of concrete. Between the ballast walls there is a deep layer of dry stone May 15, 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 677
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