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“No further rack-rail was built and one of the portions constructed was converted, but two short stretches of rack-rail remained near Puerto Plata, one of one mile and another of three miles.”

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“The insurgents destroyed bridges and the rack-rail; the latter has not been replaced, and the four and ten per cent grades are now laboriously overcome by means of”

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future

“The rack-rail feature being undesirable, plans were made for the construction of the road as an adhesion road.”

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“And the Blenkinsop engine at Coxlodge was found very unsteady and costly in its working; besides, it pulled the rails to pieces, the entire strain being upon the rack-rail on one side of the road.”

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“It was also very apt to get off the rack-rail, and then it stood still.”

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“One of the chief causes of failure being the rack-rail, the idea occurred to”

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

“This new locomotive had a single 8-inch cylinder, was provided with a fly-wheel like its predecessor, and the driving-wheel was cogged on one side to enable it to travel in the rack-rail laid along the road.”

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“Page 186 with teeth on the outside, and to let the engine turn a cogwheel, whose teeth should work into the rack-rail.”

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“Encouraged by the success of Mr. Blenkinsop’s experiment at Leeds, Mr. Blackett determined to follow his example; and in 1812 he ordered a second engine, to work with a toothed driving-wheel upon a rack-rail.”

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