Railroad Engineering

TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK This book gives a comprehensive look at the railroad industry. It meets a continuing need by students and the railroad industry as an up-to-date text that presents the basic principles of railroad engineering and an application of these principles. Part I discusses the Principles of Location and Operation based on the assumption that a railroad must be located before it can be built. Track analysis, as a basis for track and track component design and use, introduces Part II, on construction and maintenance. Study problems are included in Appendices A and B as a means of indicating how some of the principles can be applied. Easy to read style. Hardcover.