Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads and Locomotive Engines, for the Use of Engineers, Mechanics, and Others: In Which the Mechanical Construction of Edge, Tram, Suspension, and All Other Railways, and the Various Locomotive Carriages, Designed for Rail, and Common Roads, Are Described in Chronological Order, Accompanied by an Analysis of the Whole At each end of the rails holes were cast, through which stout nails were driven into the sleepers ddd, made of wood, in the first instance, and afterwards of blocks of stone, by Barnes, Outram, and others. 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.