A Commentary By W W Evans

Author : W. W. Evans
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ISBN 13 : 9781331716242
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book A Commentary by W. W. Evans written by W. W. Evans and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Commentary by W. W. Evans: On Criticisims Concerning American V. English Locomotives, With Testimony by English Engineers Most American Civil Engineers would "come to grief" if they attempted to write on English locomotives, for the simple reason that they know nothing about them. Mr. Brereton has written a long and very able letter in connection with railway economy, and deserves credit instead of severe criticism. He has given piles of facts and valuable data, and expressed opinions that any unprejudiced mind was sure to arrive at with such evidence as he had. He was well able to judge correctly on the subject he wrote on, as he had many years of experience in connection with railways, first in England, then in India as Chief on one of the most important lines of railway in the world, then for some years in the United States, and now in England again. Surely a man with such experience should carry some weight in his train when he expresses an opinion, and particularly when it is understood that he is an educated English gentleman, living in England and not in any way connected with any American enterprise or industry. He simply wished, without fee or reward, to give to railway progress a few facts from his storehouse of experience and knowledge, the same as Fox, McDonnell, Colburn and others had done before him, in the elaborate and clever papers they wrote and read before the Institution of Civil Engineers of England, and for which they were so highly complimented. I have no knowledge of how my letter to Mr. Higinbotham came to get into print. It was a hurriedly written private letter, written to prove one single point, namely, that American engines were not short-lived affairs, arid if that letter is not a full and convincing proof of that fact then I submit that figures are deceptive, and that there is no use in referring to them in discussion or argument. It was asserted by an English writer on political economy, that any man who could make two speaks of grass grow where only one had grown before, was doing a benefit to all mankind. In the railway world it has been conceded that the true measure of railway economy is the cost of carrying a ton a mile, and that any one who can, by any device or system, produce this result, is adding something to the progress of the age in which he lives. The whole matter of railway progress and economy is wrapped up in this one item of cost of carrying a ton of goods a mile, and a passenger a mile. 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.