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Railway Property

Railway Property


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and estimates of expense, and lay the whole before the Board of Directors, with his opinion as to the most elegible route. In the early history of our railways this was the usual, if not the general practice. This method places a direct responsibility on the engineer, who is best qualified to meet it, and whose professional reputation is materially concerned to guard against errors that a future observer might discover. On his skill and fidelity much must depend, and the directors of a railway company will need good judgment in selecting one whose experience and skill will be a guaranty that this duty will be discharged with ability and fidelity to the interest of the enterprise. The desirable result, it is evident, has not alwaysbeen secured. Locations have been made that required large expenditures to correct, or when not corrected have worked a permanent detriment to the line. This has sometimes resulted from incompetent engineering, but not always. Scheming directors and agents, and sometimes speculating engineers have had other objects than the interest of the corporation to control their action, and lead to improper location. When persons of this class obtain a seat in a board of directors, they will be most likely to employ an engineer who they regard best calculated to serve their object; and these are not engineers of high standing for professional skill, firmness and fidelity. Another source of error in this respect is, that of giving the contractor the control ov...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781429019965
  • Publisher: Applewood Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Applewood Books
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Series Title: Transportation (Applewood Books)
  • Sub Title: A Treatise on the Construction and Management of Railways
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1429019964
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 557 gr


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