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Excerpt from Manual of Recommended Practice for Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way: Containing the Definitions, Specifications and Principles of Practice Adopted and Recommended by the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association At the Fifth Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineer ing and Maintenance of Way Association, held at Chicago in March, 1904, it was decided to publish a Manual of the Recommended Defini tions, Specifications and Principles of Practice for Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Work adopted by the Association at its conventions after due consideration of reports on the various subjects submitted by standing or special committees of the Association. Owing to 'the importance and weight that should be justly attrib uted to the deliberate and carefully expressed Opinion of an Association comprising prominent railway Officials and specialists in the various classes of work and duties connected with the location, construction, maintenance and operation of railroads, and' the in uence that this pub lication will undoubtedly have on railway engineering and maintenance of way work in this country, the Board of Direction has exercised particular care to include in the Manual only such matter as has been carefully and sufficiently considered by the Association prior to its adoption by vote at the annual conventions SO as to warrant its publi cation in this Manual as the practice recommended by the Association. The Manual will be supplemented or issued annually after each annual convention and kept up-to-date by sluch additions and revision of' previously published matter as may be decided on by the Association at each convention, working under special rules governing the publication of the Manual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."