Excerpt from Railway Practice and Railway Possibilities as Affecting Dividends and Safety: With Diagrams of Engines, Trains, and Brakes Nearly twenty years back I published a work under the title of Road Progress, treating the general question of Railways and also of the proportions and excess of dead weight to paying load. There is no doubt too large a proportion of dead weight, but the supposition that the dead weight can always be exactly adjusted to the paying load is a fallacy. The Engine and Train must be a fixed ...
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Excerpt from Railway Practice and Railway Possibilities as Affecting Dividends and Safety: With Diagrams of Engines, Trains, and Brakes Nearly twenty years back I published a work under the title of Road Progress, treating the general question of Railways and also of the proportions and excess of dead weight to paying load. There is no doubt too large a proportion of dead weight, but the supposition that the dead weight can always be exactly adjusted to the paying load is a fallacy. The Engine and Train must be a fixed load, because it must go and return whether full or empty, just the same as the omnibus and horses, whereas the paying load, whether of goods or passengers, will always be varying. The calculation of accommodation must therefore be for the maximum average, and not the actual maximum. And herein lies a dificulty. The public makes a great outcry, if fifty passengers are occasionally disappointed in a train calculated for five hundred, and so the Directors provide for five hundred and fifty, and the dead weight for the fifty is dead loss as often as the fifty fail to come. And this process goes on till at last trains commonly run half full, and with large engines doing the work of small ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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