Excerpt from Road Progress: Or, Amalgamation of Railways and Highways for Agricultural Improvement, and Steam Farming, in Great Britain and the Colonies; Also Practically Economy in Fixed Plant and Rolling Stocks for Passenger and Goods Trains Under the first head may be ranged legal and parliamentary expenses, excessive cost of land and compensation, and the choice of injudicious routes. Under the second part may be ranged the imperfect construction of the permanent way and substructure, the unmechanical structure of the locomotives and trains; and, in addition to these, the excessive weight of the loco motives and trains beyond what the rails were capable of sustain ing, -and it may be added, beyond what it is practicable by human art to make them sustain, with an economic use of steam power. 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.