Excerpt from The Road-Master's Assistant and Section-Master's Guide: A Manual of Reference for All Having to Do With the Permanent Way of American Railroads With the introduction of the T rail in this country a certain method of laying track was. Adopted, and, with few exceptions, has been adhered to until the present day, and so with track repairs. It may be said that track-men fell into a groove thirty years ago, and are still following it, to the great detriment of rail road shareholders and of the public at large. 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.