Excerpt from Railroad Shop Practice: Methods and Tools A great deal is to be learned therefore by a study Of operations in the different classes Of railroad shops, large, medium and small, and it is the purpose of this volume to show typical methods and appliances as adapted to the work Of various repair shops located at widely separated points about the country. Much Of the material presented in the following pages has been adapted from the author's articles in the American Machinist and other technical journals, and a limited amount of data has been included from the contributions of other writers to whom credit is given in the text. Much original matter is also here presented for the first time. 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.