Excerpt from Railway Curves for Practical Trackmen Smith curve lining gauge, whose construction and various applications for the work for which it was designed are fully described. The author believes that any intelligent section foreman, by the careful study of this little book and the use of the Smith curve lining gauge, should be able to adjust any of his curves, and do it right, with results raising the entire stand ard of the American railway service. The problems illustrated in this work are all of a practical character, and cover nearly all the curve work which the track foreman is expected to perform. 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.