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  SIDE - Online Information article about SIDE
rail rope by an endless hauling rope at an average speed of 4 to 6 m.
Telpherage.—A telpher ropeway or cableway may be defined as a ropeway or cableway worked and controlled electrically, only a rail rope being required besides the live rail or wire from which the electric current is taken.
Thus the telpher is a self-propelled electric carrier running on a mono-rail, which, according to the conditions, may be a steel rail or a steel cable.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIDE.html   (5308 words)

  
 Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum Education
Railroads needed better engineering of bridges and roadbeds, stronger rails, better methods for communicating, improved ways to control trains, and safer brakes and couplers.hese last two were especially important to railroad safety and are good examples of how long it took to get a good idea to be used.
The distance between the rails is known as the gauge of the track.
The rails are held to the ties by large spikes which also keep the track in gauge.
www.berkshirescenicrailroad.com /education.php   (7600 words)

  
 1835 - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1832 1833 1834 - 1835 - 1836 1837 1838
Canada - Mexico - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport
1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
www.voyager.in /1835   (895 words)

  
 A history of St. Louis
Coffee and sugar were $2.00 per pound due to excessive transportation costs overland or up river by flat boat.
A new method of land transport, which later sounded the death knell of the steamboat, began to influence St. Louis in the 1850's.
In the field of inter-city transportation, the period since the end of World War II has seen the decline of rail passenger traffic and a consequent upsurge in the rise of air and bus lines.
www.stlouis.missouri.org /heritage/History69   (11768 words)

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