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Showing posts with label water brake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water brake. Show all posts
03 February 2018

Switchbacks and Tunnels in the Cascade Range

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Civil engineers used switchbacks to lift some main line routes over mountains as the time-consuming process of constructing tunne...
13 May 2016

Water Brake - Used on the Big Hill.

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An article follows which gives a contemporary explanation on the 'water brake'.  A simple modern parallel is that this technolog...
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