The Farmers' Centennial History of Ohio, 1803-1903
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From the following quotation^ one can get an excellent idea of the difference between railroad construction in 1832 and 1900: "In order to appreciate tlie progress that has been made in the railroad business in Ohio one must contrast a trade made of wooden rails covered with strap iron, with modern 'T' rails made of steel, weighing 100 pounds to the yard; wooden bridges set on wooden piling, driven into the earth, with steel bridges set on best of stone masonry; double-deck coaches, built like ...an old-fash- ioned stage coach, with modern vestibule and Pullman palace cars; a small ten- ton engine, built like a modern thresher engine, with a two hundred and eighty- ton engine with a tank capacity of seven thousand gallons of water and ten tons of coal, with a hauling capacity of two thousand tons up a grade of forty- two feet to the mile at a much higher rate of speed than the first engines were able to make on a level; a wooden freight car, ten-ton capacity, with a car made entirely of steel, with a capacity of fifty tons.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
From the following quotation^ one can get an excellent idea of the difference between railroad construction in 1832 and 1900: "In order to appreciate tlie progress that has been made in the railroad business in Ohio one must contrast a trade made of wooden rails covered with strap iron, with modern 'T' rails made of steel, weighing 100 pounds to the yard; wooden bridges set on wooden piling, driven into the earth, with steel bridges set on best of stone masonry; double-deck coaches, built like ...an old-fash- ioned stage coach, with modern vestibule and Pullman palace cars; a small ten- ton engine, built like a modern thresher engine, with a two hundred and eighty- ton engine with a tank capacity of seven thousand gallons of water and ten tons of coal, with a hauling capacity of two thousand tons up a grade of forty- two feet to the mile at a much higher rate of speed than the first engines were able to make on a level; a wooden freight car, ten-ton capacity, with a car made entirely of steel, with a capacity of fifty tons.
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