Identifier: railwaylocomotiv19newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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14 Wood. R. D., & Co 7 Zephoh Chemical Compound Co. . . .; is Rffi9fi::EiRiiMeriiR Vol. XIX. Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.— J906 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock 136 Liberty Street, New York, October, 1906 No. 10 Railway Steamship. nieaiiing the side which was usually why the larboard side, unencumbered When looking at a beautifully pro- put against the wharf in order to lade with the fixed oar was brought up to portioned steamship like the one or load the ship. It was, in fact, the the wharf. Starboard comes from the we present this month, the ordinary side always put nearest the port as dis- Anglo-Saxon word, steor, a rudder, railroad man probably thinks oi some tinguished from that toward the open and bord, side. The starboard side appropriate nautical terms, such as sea. This word was years ago of- was the rudder side and the port side he might hear if on board. Two very ficially changed to port, in order was the one over which the loading
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SHE WALKS THE WATERS LIKE A THI.XG OP LIFE. AND SEEMS TO DARE THE ELE.ME.XTS TO STRIFE.—S>tow. interesting words used in connection with steering come to mind, the origin of which is interesting. These words are Port and Starboard. In former days the port or left hand side of the vessel when one looks toward the bow, was called the larboard side, and the word is said to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon, leer, empty, but later from the Middle English laddebord, to prevent confusion with the word of similar sound, starboard, used to designate the right side of the ship. The word, port, was, therefore, an appro-priate change from larboard. The word, starboard, comes from the days when the bow and stern were of similar shape and the ancient galleon was steered by an oar at the stern, fastened in place over the right side, and this is and unloading was done. Modern ship construction has changed the method of steering and of loading, but the words remain. We have been able to secure some interesting fac

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