Excerpt from Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association, Vol. 48: Held at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, March 18, 19, and 20, 1947 This report is presented as final, with the recommendation that the instructions for the care and operation of maintenance of way equipment be adopted for publication in handbook form as a supplement to the Manual. These instructions, which appear on following pages, have been set to a narrow column width to facilitate reprinting in handbook form if adopted and the Board of Direction authorizes publication. The material for the handbook was collected from various sources such as railroad books of rules, bulletins and manuals; manufacturer's' operating and service manuals; United States Government bulletins; publications of various standards associations and technical societies; and from text books. 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.