Railroad Economics: Or, Notes, with Comments from a Tour Over Ohio Railways Under the Hon. H. Sabine, Commissioner of Railroads and TelegraphsD. Van Nostrand, 1882 - 131 Seiten |
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Seite 71 - ... easement curve, it appears that the very best conditions possible to adopt for fixing it are to assume, first, that the car, in tilting to the difference of rail elevation as it passes along the easement curve, shall rotate about a longitudinal axis passing through the centre of gravity of its cross section, and, second, that it be accelerated in that tilting movement, so that a passenger at the side of the car shall experience only the sensation of a slight change in his own weight while on...