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 While the question of what is economical management respecting maintenance of Way and structures is one which the management of each property must solve for itself, we can certainly assist each other by a full and frank comparison o/f views and a discussion of the various elements that constitute an economical handling of our maintenanceof way work. The establishment of certain recognized principles as the result of our investigations and discussions will materially assist our Management's in adopting a policy that will lead to the truest and highest economy. 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.