Excerpt from Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association, Vol. 38: Held at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 17 and 18, 1937 Report OF committee ON standardization American Standards Association Canadian Engineering Standards Association Tabulation of Specifications and Recommended Practices as Contained in the. 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.