practical treatise on railway curves and location
Subtitle: for young engineers : containing a full description of the instruments, the manner of adjusting them, and the methods of proceeding in the field, new and simple formulae for compound and reverse curving, rules for calculating excavation and embankment, staking out work, &c., together with tables of natural sines and tangents, radii, chords, ordinates, and others of general use in the profession
By: by William F. Shunk.
Publisher: E.H. Butler & Co.
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Subjects: Railroads -- Curves and turnouts