Route Surveys (A Pocket Book for the Survey, Design, and Construction of Railways, Highways, Canals, Flumes, Levees, Pipe Lines, Transmission Lines, and Other Route Constructions)

"The course in curves and earthwork is intended to be similar to the railroad surveying traditional in civil engineering training except that it would treat the problems of route location, curve layout, and the measurement, computation, and layout of earthwork, as elements applicable to many forms of engineering work, such as highways, canals, pipe lines, transmission lines, equally as much as to railroad construction."--First National Surveying Teachers Conference. This book has been written with precisely this point of view. It is the outgrowth of some 30 years of engineering practice and teaching in the field of transportation. Covers: Reconnaissance, The Preliminary, Location, Simple Circular Curves, Compound and Reverse Curves, Solution by Traverse, Vertical and Other Parabolic Curves, Spirals, Railway Turnouts and Track Layouts, String Lining of Curves, Excavation and Embankment, Haul and the Mass Diagram, Rights of Way, Construction, Observations for Meridian, Adjustment of Instruments, ARC Definition of Degree of Curve.