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Re: Track slope...
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:43:52 GMT
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lpien@&avoidspam&IWANTNOSPAM.ctp.com
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Paul Foster wrote:
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > For some fascinating reading on this topic, go to a used book store and
> > find a civil engineering text that predates WWII. Matt Bates's site has
> > info on this as well.
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> Not having access to a used book store, why a civil eng text from before
> WWII? Did that data become classified after WWII?
There was an emphasis shift in introductory civil texts around that time
period, as highway and airport engineering became more prominent. In any
1920 era civil text, railroad and bridge engineering vastly outweigh
airport and highway engineering.
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| (...) Not having access to a used book store, why a civil eng text from before WWII? Did that data become classified after WWII? (26 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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