Fifteenth Annual Report of the General Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, for 1868

Download or read book Fifteenth Annual Report of the General Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, for 1868 written by Connecticut Railroad Commissioners and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the General Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, for 1868: Together With the Annual Report of the Railroad Corporations in This State, for 1867; To Which Are Added the Leading Statistics Prepared by the Commissioners Your commissioners in their report of 1866, made mention Of the advantages which in their Opinion would arise in the introduction Of steel rails and urged their adoption by the railroad companies. The Opinions then expressed have. Been fully confirmed by actual experiment, wherever they have been laid, and where the traffic is almost constant, there is scarcely any perceptible wear upon them, and they now pre sent nearly as good an appearance as when laid down. 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.