AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

INSTITUTED 1852

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Paper No. 1177

FINAL REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON RAIL SECTIONS.[A]

Your Special Committee on Steel Rails, since their appointment in 1902, have held numerous meetings, not only of their own body, but also in conference with Committees representing other Societies and the steel rail makers. The results of their deliberations have been presented to the Society in their reports presented on—

As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association is also acting for the American Railway Association; and the latter organization has guaranteed to it the necessary funds to make exhaustive tests and observations as to the wear, breakage, etc., etc., of steel rails. This work is being prosecuted, and will of necessity require several years.

Your Committee feels that it has nothing to add to the several reports which it has presented to the Society, particularly as, so far, the several cardinal principles outlined in them are being practically followed in the several used and proposed specifications and rail sections.

In view of the foregoing, your Committee would respectfully ask to be discharged so that the field may be clear if at any future time the Society should desire to again place the subject in the hands of a Committee.

Joseph T. Richards,
C. W. Buchholz,
E. C. Carter,
S. M. Felton,
Robert W. Hunt,
John D. Isaacs,
Richard Montfort,
H. G. Prout,
Percival Roberts, Jr.,
George E. Thackray,
Edmund K. Turner,

Approved in connection with the attached report:

William R. Webster.

June, 1910.

Philadelphia, June 1st, 1910.

I have signed the Report of the A. S. C. E. Rail Committee,—"Approved in connection with the attached report," as I feel that the report is too condensed, and assumes that all are familiar with the Rail situation,