Excerpt from Rules for Railway Location and Construction: Used on the Northern Pacific Railway The Construction Department will have charge of all sur veys and construction in connection with the building of new railways or extensions of existing lines. The Engineering Department will have charge of all sur veys and engineering connected with the work of improving lines already built. The organization of the Construction Department will be as follows: (1) Chief Engineer, reporting to the President. K2) Division Engineers, with jurisdiction as assigned by the Chief Engineer. (3) Assistant Engineers in charge of the construction of a line, or other work of importance, reporting to Division Engineers. (4) Locating Engineers, reporting to Division Engineers or to Assistant Engineers as directed. (5) Resident Engineers, in charge of the construction of a sec tion of new road, or a subdivision of some work, reporting to Assistant Engineers. The organization of the Engineering Department will be as follows: (1) Chief Engineer, report ing to the General Manager. (2) Division Engineers, having charge of the engineering work upon lines in operation, reporting to the Chief Engineer, and also acting as Division Engineers of the Construction Department upon special assignment by the Chief Engineer to such work. (3) Assist ant Engineers, in charge of special work, reporting to Divis ion Engineers. 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.