✦ LIBER ✦
The choice of a trolley wire: G. H. McKelway. (Electr. Rly. Journ., xliii, 647.)
- Book ID
- 104119721
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1914
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 178
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
Longest Rope Railroad. Az~oN. (Amer. Mach., xl, No. 26, I IX5.)--W,hat is calculated as the longest rope railroad in the world is to be operated in India. It is 75 miles in length, and will connect the rich country in the vale of Kashmir with the plains Of the Punjab over the Himalayas. The present longest rope railroad is 22 miles, situated in the Argentine. The sections will be five miles long, and most of the spans will be 24oo feet. The steel towers, some of which will be Ioo feet high, will be braced, and double I~ inch cables, 9 feet apart, will carry the steel cars. The carrying capacity of these cars will be about 4oo pounds each.