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Excerpt from Manual for Resident Engineers: Containing General Information on Railroad Construction Prompt and exact compliance with all the instruo tions contained herein, or in any circular issued hereto fore or hereafter, will be required. Resident Engineers in their dealings with the con tractors are expected to follow a courteous, business like and ethical course; to recollect that it is the con tractors' business to make all the money possible. Resident Engineers are not on the work to prevent this, but to see that the contractors perform their work in strict accordance with the specifications, plans and contract. 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.