HANDBOOK OF RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION; FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN ENGINEERS. CONTAINING THE NECESSARY RULES, TABLES, AND FORMULÆ FOR THE LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT, AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILROADS, AS BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES. With 158 Illustrations

BY

GEORGE L. VOSE,

CIVIL ENGINEER

“Rules themselves oblige us to reflect, that we may see whether we have not departed from them.”—Napoleon.

BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

ALLEN AND FARNHAM, PRINTERS.

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