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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the route, 60^ miles in length, will be very heavy, owing to the excessively broken character of the country traversed. The total length of the line isio2; miles, of which five-sixths are fairly easy and one-sixth difficult. The line crosses the important rivers San Agostin, Acoyapa, Ajocuapa, de Aguas, Cacao, Oyale, Chilniate, and Serrano, the two latter being tributaries of the Rama, none, however, exceeding 180 ft. in width. The line surveyed is certainly as good as could be selected through the country for gradients, curves, and cost. It is the intention to complete the road within three years and at an estimated cost of between 13,000,000 and 14.000.000. The gauge of the road will be 3 ft. 6 in., being the same as that of the National line. The company also intends to deepen the channel at the mouth of Bluefields River. When this is done, vessels of12 ft. to 14 ft. draft can go up the river to Boca de la Rama, 65 miles. The country along the river is well 124 THE RAILROAD ANt) (March, 1892!.
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><Z tn w H<H a UiH S D woiH wa. o CQ z O Vol. LXVI. No. 3.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 125 settled and cultivated. The country along the proposed line abounds in mahogany, cedar and other valuable woods, and in India-rubber trees. A railroad has just been l)uilt from San Jorge on the western shore of Lake Nicaragua, to Rivas, 3 miles. It carries both passengers and freight, but the motive power at present is furnished by mules. The Government of Nicaragua has in contemplation a railroad from Momotombo, on the northwestern side of Lake Managua, to Sebaco, in the department of Matag-alpa. The length of the proposed road is 120 miles. This proposed road will tap a section that is destined in a near day to be the coffee-producing district of Nicaragua. There are a large number of foreigners already in this department, many of them Americans, and each year sees the number largely augmented. way to join the China squadron, for service in which she is particularly adapted. The general dimensions of

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