Re: Steepest train/tram line

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:02:28 -0500, James Robinson <NOSPAM@ERIE.NET>
wrote:

>MarkBau1 wrote:
>> 
>> Apart from Australia and that little island off France are there any other
>> countries that still use the 1 in XX instead if the % system?
>
>It was also a common practice on many railways that followed British
>practice to measure gradients in feet per mile.  This lasted into about
>1920 or so, and many track profiles will still show this measure
>depending on when they were originally drawn.  Thus a 1 in 50 grade, is
>the same as a 2 percent grade, is the same as a gradient of 105.6 feet
>per mile.  Percent gradient as a measure began to be popular in about
>1885, and soon displaced feet per mile in most applications.
 Didn't the ATSF use feet per mile until very recent times?

Cheers

Krel

Just another eccentric crank.