Identifier: railwaylocomotiv21newy (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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er reduced. Key West is but 90miles from Havana, and it is plannedto join the two by a ferry servicewhich shall take the trains themselvesthrough, thus making the journey anall-rail one. The condition which confronted thebuilders of the extension was this:From the southern mainland of Floridain a long curving line to the southwest-ward, lay the coral islets called the Flori-da Keys. These little islands stretch outinto the Gulf to Key West, the last ofthe chain. Eastward lies the Atlantic,westward the Bay of Florida. Beginningat Homestead on the mainland, 28miles south of Miami, where the Flor-ida East Coast Railway ended, the con-tractors built along the line of thosekeys and across the scores of channelsand passages which separate one fromanother. They made a road so solidlybased as to withstand the dreadedautumn hurricanes which have theirbreeding place among the West Indiaislands. Some of the channels are afew feet wide, some thousands of feetand some miles. The widest of all, the
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The construction of this line is map-changing work, as well as a uniquepiece of railroad building. When thetrains began running to Knights Key.Cuba was brought, in point of time, cities, whirl across several degrees oflatitude direct to Knights Key andthere step from the train aboard a boatwhich will land him in the Cuban capi-tal, 115 miles distant, within six hours. spanning of which was the last piece ofwork in the completion of the sectionnow opened, is five and a half milesacross from island to island. Every-thing except the rock for the roadbedand embankments had to be transport-ed from the mainland, as the keys aremostly barren and could furnish no March, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 95 supplies. Even water had to be brought embankments which cross the shal-in tanks and the workmen had to lie lower passages arc 25-fool water open Imiim-fl in lln.itimr dormitories In smte intS ;M freniietit intervals housed in floating dormitories. In spite nigs al frequent intervals

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