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the use of all classes of practical mechanics. Together with the Engineer's Field Book: Containing formulæ for the various of running and changing lines, locating side tracks and switches, &c., &c. Tables of radii and their logarithms, natural and logarithmic versed sines and external secants, natural sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant, and logarithms from the natural numbers from 1 to 10,000
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The Mechanic's, Machinist's, Engineer's Practical Book of Reference: Containing tables and formulæ for use in superficial and solid mensuration; strength and weight of materials; mechanics; machinery; hydraulics, hydrodynamics; marine engines, chemistry; and miscellaneous recipes. Adapted to and for
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The line came under the influence and later control of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and combined with the former Marietta & Cincinnati connecting to the B&O at Parkersburg, West Virginia formed a continuous line between St. Louis and the east coast at Baltimore and Washington, DC. For
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When originally built the Ohio & Mississippi was built to the six foot (6’) broad “Erie Gauge.” For a time a connection with a dual gauge section of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton (CH&D), Atlantic Great Western (AGW) and the Erie Railway allowed travel on the Great Broad Route of Erie
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Reynolds, William, Peter K. Gifford, and Robert D. Ilisevich. European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad (The University of Akron Press,
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Gauge from St. Louis to New York City. In one day in 1871, Sunday, July 23, 1871, 400 miles of the Ohio & Mississippi was converted to standard gauge.
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Charles Frederick Carter,"Vagaries of Railroad Evolution: The Riddle of the Gauge." 1928, Lecture delivered to New York Athletic Club.
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in U.S. history. The insolvent Ohio and Mississippi Railroad was reorganized in 1867 as the Ohio and Mississippi Railway.
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Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, Repair Shops, Van Trees & Seventeenth Streets, Washington, Daviess County, IN
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Harry Stegmaier, Route of the National Limited (Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, 1945-1971, Vol 1) 1997
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Still there would be much labor of computation which may be saved by the use of tables of
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many years, one of B&O’s premier trains, the National Limited, traveled this route.
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Share of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, issued 31 march 1887
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The Rebellion the United States by Jennett Blakeslee Frost - 1862
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a train carrying union troops fell through a sabotaged bridge at
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Haslett, Charles (September 1855). Hackley, Charles W. (ed.).
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See Erie’s Narrow Gauge, Cincinnati Commercial, Jan. 4, 1879
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was completed in 1857. It was a founding rail line of the
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Osgood, Indiana
Cincinnati, Ohio
East St. Louis, Illinois
Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal
Mississippi River
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Ormsby M. Mitchel
American Civil War
Huron, Indiana
Adams Express Company
Reno Gang
Seymour, Indiana
train robbery
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway
CSX Transportation
Indiana Subdivision
Illinois Subdivision

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