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The Roadmasters' Assistant : A Manual of Reference for Those Having to Do with the Permanent Way of American Railroads (Classic Reprint) by George H. Paine (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Excerpt from The Roadmasters' Assistant: A Manual of Reference for Those Having to Do With the Permanent Way of American Railroads The Roadmasters' Assistant and Section Masters' Guide was first published in 1871. Mr. William S. Huntington, the author, stated in his preface that it was his wish to make "a practical book for practical men." This he did, and the book at once became a standard railroad work. It was small and necessarily incomplete in many ways; but it was a useful guide and a counsellor to men of all ranks in the maintenance of way department. Drawing upon his own experience, Mr. Huntington set down quite as many ways of how not to do things as suggestions of how to do track work properly. Six years later, Mr. Charles Latimer, Chief Engineer of the Atlantic & Great Western, undertook to revise and enlarge the first edition. Following out Mr. Huntington's example, he retained the practical side, but at the same time expanded and generalized many of the suggestions and rules laid down by Mr. Huntington, so as to make the book as useful to the roadmaster on a narrow gage road as it was to the roadmaster on a standard gage road. This was in response largely to the spirit of the times, which was characterized by the now famous battle of the gages. There were few radical changes in track work between the time of Mr. Huntington and Mr. Latimer, so that to a great extent the information embodied in the first edition was equally applicable to the existing practice in maintenance of way work at the time the second edition was published. For nearly twenty years after Mr. Latimer made his revision, the Roadmasters' Assistant held its position as a standard reference book. 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.

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Roadmasters' Assistant : A Manual of Reference for Those Having to Do with the Permanent Way of American Railroads (Classic Reprint)
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George H. Paine
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