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Excerpt from And Explorers' Guide: Especially Adapted to the Use of Railroad Engineers on Location and Construction, and to the Needs of the Explorer in Making Exploratory Surveys
Sec. 1. Conditions of Economical Location 2. Train Resistances 3. Rolling Resistance 4 Resistance due to Oscillation and Concussion 5 Atmospheric Resistance 6. Resistance due to Curvature 7. Resistance due to Gravity 8. Diagram of Resistance Limiting Velocity on any Grade 9. Propelling Force of Locomotive. Coefficient of Adhesion Sliding Friction Limiting i.h.p Weight on Driving-wheels Grate-surface 10. Diagram of Propelling Force Limiting Speed for any given i.h.p Internal Frictional Resistances. Back-pressure, Wire-drawing etc 11. Diameters of Driving-wheels 12. I.h.p. Required at any given Speed. Most Economical Speed. Limiting Grade.. 13. Weight of Locomotives and Rolling-stock 14. Resistance due to Inertia.. Rotative Energy Of the Wheels. 15. Resistance caused by Application of Brakes Automatic Brakes Hand Brakes 16. Initial Velocity. 17. Height corresponding to Velocity Table of Heights corresponding to Velocity; 18. Assumption of Mean Resistance and Mean Propelling Force.
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