item: #1 of 11
          id: 17569
      author: Interborough Rapid Transit Company
       title: The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
        date: None
       words: 49259
      flesch: 60
     summary: In January, 1903, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company acquired the elevated railway system by lease for 999 years from the Manhattan Railway Company, thus assuring harmonious operation of the elevated roads and the subway system, including the Brooklyn extension. [Sidenote: _Main Engines_] The main engines are similar in type to those installed in the 74th Street power house of the Manhattan Division of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, i. e., each consists of two component compound engines, both connected to a common shaft, with the generator placed between the two component engines.
    keywords: air; avenue; board; boiler; broadway; building; car; cars; city; company; concrete; construction; current; electric; end; engine; feet; floor; general; house; illustration; inch; inches; iron; length; line; main; motor; new; operating; power; power house; pressure; railway; rapid; river; road; roof; room; section; sidenote; signal; station; steam; steel; street; street station; street surface; subway; surface; system; track; train; transit; tunnel; water; work
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 18747
      author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172
        date: None
       words: 5776
      flesch: 75
     summary: |1906 ============================================================================ ============================================================================== |Source of Data. ======================================================================== Length of grade, in miles | |
    keywords: = =; = weight; = |source; drivers; grade; miles; | |
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 18785
      author: Various
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Final Report of Special Committee on Rail Sections, Paper No. 1177
        date: None
       words: 3872
      flesch: 66
     summary: Rails which, by reason of surface imperfections, are not accepted as No. 1 rails, will be classed as No. 2 rails, but rails containing physical defects which impair their strength, shall be rejected. The results of their deliberations have been presented to the Society in their reports presented on-- January 21st, 1903[B] 18th, 1905 17th, 1906 16th, 1907 July 9th, 1907 December 6th, 1907 18th, 1908 November 30th, 1909 As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association is also acting for the American Railway Association; and the latter organization has guaranteed to it the necessary funds to make exhaustive tests and observations as to the wear, breakage, etc., etc., of steel rails.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; rails; specifications
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 33172
      author: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Committee of Ten
       title: Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn
        date: None
       words: 8379
      flesch: 63
     summary: 4. Site for court house takes Polytechnic land and buildings, etc., in addition to land now owned by the city 733,700.00 ------------- Total $5,994,895.00 This plan contemplates that the court house would occupy all of the present court house block except the Hall of Records; that it should have a large inner court with court rooms opening upon it; and that the municipal building should be placed on the plaza site. Site for new court house takes part of last item.
    keywords: borough; brooklyn; building; court house; court rooms; court street; hall; new; plan; site; street
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 39926
      author: Knight, Helen C. (Helen Cross)
       title: "Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket" or, the story of the Stephensons and our Railways.
        date: None
       words: 27810
      flesch: 86
     summary: George and Robert Stephenson took their rank among the great men of England--that class of great men who contribute to the true prosperity of the world, by giving it better tools to do its labour with. But what he could not do other men could do and did do.
    keywords: billy; cloth; day; engine; england; father; friends; george; good; home; illustrated; illustrations; john; life; little; locomotive; man; men; miles; mrs; new; poor; power; rev; road; robert; steam; stephenson; story; time; work; world; young
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 40242
      author: Hungerford, Edward
       title: The Modern Railroad
        date: None
       words: 163961
      flesch: 71
     summary: At that time carriages were no novelty, and railroad cars were. The wagon service brings the express package, no matter how small or how large, to a central distributing depot, where all are gathered together and sent, in through railroad cars, to their destinations, being handled very largely as we have seen the L. C. L. freight handled in the great transfer houses of the railroads.
    keywords: agent; american railroad; baltimore; beginning; big; boston; bridge; building; business; car; cars; case; central; central railroad; chicago; chief; city; construction; cost; country; day; days; department; development; division; east; electric; engine; engineer; equipment; erie; express; feet; freight; general; good; half; hand; heavy; house; illustration; island railroad; land; like; line; line railroad; locomotive; long; main; making; man; matter; men; miles; new york; night; office; ohio railroad; operating; order; pacific railroad; passenger; pennsylvania railroad; place; point; power; problem; railroad; railroad bridge; railroad cars; railroad company; railroad connections; railroad mail; railroad men; railroad operation; railroad passenger; railroad president; railroad service; railroad station; railroad system; railroad terminal; railroad traffic; rails; rate; river; river railroad; roads; run; service; shops; shore railroad; sort; special; states; station; steam; steel; suburban; superintendent; system; terminal; thing; time; town; track; traffic; train; tunnel; use; way; west; work; yard; years; york central; york city
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 45179
      author: American Railway Association
       title: The Invention of the Track Circuit The history of Dr. William Robinson's invention of the track circuit, the fundamental unit which made possible our present automatic block signaling and interlocking systems
        date: None
       words: 25828
      flesch: 57
     summary: The dry cell is used only in emergency cases or occasionally for open circuit track circuits of 2 or 3 rail lengths, which are sometimes used as annunciator starts to announce the approach of a train to a tower-man. Single rail track circuits, so called from the fact that but one rail is insulated, are also used.
    keywords: battery; block; bond; circuit system; circuits; closed; current; electric; fig; magnet; rail; rail circuit; relay; resistance; robinson; section; signal; signal system; signaling; system; track circuit; train; use; wire
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 46122
      author: Husband, Joseph
       title: The Story of the Pullman Car
        date: None
       words: 28682
      flesch: 57
     summary: Stephenson, George and Robert, and the first steam engines, 5, 7, 9 _Trans-Continental_, the paper published by Pullman car tourists in 1870, 54 Transportation, birth of railroad, 1-15 Trevithick, Richard, experiments with steam locomotive, 5 Trucks, the, used for Pullman cars, 126 Twenty minutes for dinner, failure of the system of, 102, 103 Vanderbilts, back the Wagner car, 76, 77, 84, 85 Vestibule invented, 106, 107; vestibuled trains in service, 109; trial trip, 110; welcomed in Mexico, 111 Wagner Palace Car Company, competitor of the Pullman Company, 76-79, 84; loses to the Pullman Company, 85 Wagner, Webster, founder of the Wagner Palace Car Company, 76 Woodruff sleeping car, 81; acquired by the Pullman Company, 83 [Transcriber's Notes All words printed in small capitals have been converted to uppercase characters. One of the earliest types of American passenger car 8 First locomotive built for actual service in America 9 Early passenger cars 11 American Bogie car in use in 1835 12 Cars and locomotive of 1845 14 Car in use in 1844 20 Car of 1831 21 Midnight in the old coaches 23 Convenience of the new sleeping cars 24 Early type of sleeping car 28 J. L. Barnes, first Pullman car conductor 32 One of the first cars built by George M. Pullman 42 The car in the daytime 42 Making up the berths 42 George M. Pullman explaining details of car construction 46 One of the first Pullman cars in which meals were served 52 The first parlor car, 1875 58 Interior of Pullman car of 1880 64 The rococo period car 68 More ornate interiors 74 The latest Pullman parlor car 76 First step in building the car 84 Fitting the car for steam and electricity 90 Work on steel plates for inside panels 90 Preparing the steel frame for an upper section 94 Sand blasting brass trimmings 94 Machine section, steel erecting shop 100 Fitting up the steel car underframe 100 Making cushions for the seats 104 Making chairs for parlor cars 104 Making frame end posts 106 Assembling steel car partitions 106 The vestibule in its earliest form 108 Axle generator for electric lighting 110 The sewing room, upholstering department 114 Forming steel parts for interior finish 118 Forming steel shapes for interior framing 118 Punching holes for screws 124 Shaping steel panelling 124
    keywords: american; car; car company; car construction; car service; cars; central; chicago; construction; day; dining car; end; george; hotel; illustration; m. pullman; miles; new; new york; night; palace car; parlor car; passengers; public; pullman; pullman car; pullman company; pullman service; railroad; railway; service; sleeping car; steam; steel; steel car; system; time; train; travel; use; wife; work; years; york
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 46229
      author: Smiles, Samuel
       title: The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive
        date: None
       words: 187315
      flesch: 60
     summary: [69] The arguments used by Mr. Stephenson with the directors in favor of the locomotive engine were afterward collected and published in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke, as compiled from the Reports of Mr. George Stephenson. Charles J. Brandling, Esq., occupied the chair; and several resolutions were passed, of which the first and most important was as follows: That it is the opinion of this meeting that Mr. George Stephenson, having _discovered the fact_ that explosion of hydrogen gas will not pass through tubes and apertures of small dimensions, and having been _the first to apply that principle in the construction of a safety-lamp_, is entitled to a public reward.
    keywords: afterward; bill; boiler; bridge; canal; carriage; character; coach; coal; colliery; committee; company; construction; country; course; darlington; darlington railway; day; difficulty; directors; end; engine; engineer; england; experiments; father; feet; fire; following; form; general; george stephenson; great; ground; half; home; horses; hour; house; idea; illustration; invention; iron; journey; killingworth; lamp; left; length; level; life; line; little; liverpool; locomotive; london; long; making; manchester; manchester railway; means; men; miles; moss; near; newcastle; north; number; object; occasion; parts; passengers; pit; place; power; present; pressure; progress; public; purpose; railroad; rails; railway; railway locomotive; road; robert stephenson; safety; set; sir; small; south; speed; steam; stephenson; stockton; subject; system; time; tons; traffic; trains; trevithick; tube; tunnel; wagons; water; weight; wheels; wood; work; working; workmen; years
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 51158
      author: Anderson, John Alexander
       title: The Train Wire: A Discussion of the Science of Train Dispatching (Second Edition)
        date: None
       words: 35255
      flesch: 63
     summary: One of the most interesting and original paragraphs in the first edition of The Train Wire was that describing the scheme for numbering switches and using those numbers in train orders, to facilitate the movement of trains at meeting-points. With his first experiments in train dispatching the writer became convinced that the method of issuing train orders in the same words to all concerned in each transaction afforded greater security than that supplied by any other form of order.
    keywords: = =; dispatcher; form; meeting; operator; order signal; orders; point; right; signal; superior; time; train; train order; train rules; use; work train; | |
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 51242
      author: Whyte, Adam Gowens
       title: Electricity in Locomotion An Account of Its Mechanism, Its Achievements, and Its Prospects
        date: None
       words: 28905
      flesch: 57
     summary: But the leading ideas embodied in electric traction systems were contributed by engineers who worked in the general field of electrical engineering; and they have been applied and developed by a numerous band of men who have added one brick of experience and ingenuity to another until the imposing structure was made visible to the world. In the explanations which are given of electric tramways, electric railways, electric automobiles, electric propulsion on ships, and the other phases of electric traction, nothing but the most elementary knowledge of electricity is presupposed.
    keywords: car; cars; conduit; cost; current; electric; electric tramway; electricity; horse; locomotive; london; means; motor; omnibus; overhead; power; public; railway; service; speed; station; steam; system; time; traction; traffic; tramway; tramway system; trolley
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