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Acres, roods, and perches in square feet, Table VI.

Adjustment and use of instruments

Angles of frogs, to find.

index, to find

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Cross-sectioning. See Slope stakes.

Cubes and cube roots of numbers, Table XI.

Curves, circular, on railroad defined

to find radius, length, degree, apex distance, chord, versed sine,

and external secant

form for field notes

Curves, how to lay out on the ground,

with the chain only

with transit and chain

hints as to field-work

protractor for

slackening grade on

terminal

Curves, simple, location of,

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how to proceed when the P. C. is inaccessible

to shift the P. C. in order to strike a fixed tangent

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to change radius from same P. C. in order to strike a fixed tan-
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summary of rules for

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101

to compound into a tangent intersecting main curve on concave
side

102

to compound into a tangent intersecting main curve on convex
side

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to connect curves of contrary flexure by short tangents

to locate a Y from a tangent.

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52, 55

145, 146

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to substitute a curve for a tangent connecting two curves

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108

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109

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Decimals of an acre per 100 feet for various widths, Table V.

Deflection angles and distances explained

to find.

short rule for sub-deflections

limit in field-practice

Degree of curve, to calculate.

to find on ground.

Deviations from project admissible on location

Distances, tangential and deflection, defined

table of

of frogs from toe of switch

tables of.

Elevation of outer rail on curves

table of

Excavation and embankment, to stake out

External secants, to find

of a 1° curve, Table XVI

Extreme elongations of North Star, Table II.

Feet in decimals of a mile, Table VIII.
Field-work, suggestions concerning

Field-book, form of, for level

for transit.

for slope stakes

Frogs and switches

rules for angles and distances

table of, switch-rails straight

switch-rails curved

plain rules for locating, switch-rails straight

switch-rails curved

on narrow gauges

patterns for.

Functions, trigonometrical, defined

logarithmic, of arcs, to find

General propositions in trigonometry

as to circles.

Grade, to slacken on curves

rise per mile, Table XVII.

Grade lines, how to project on map

how to trace in field.

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Needle, magnetic, to adjust

to re-magnetize.

hints as to management

bearings should always be noted

North Star, to establish meridian by times of meridian passage, Table I. extreme elongations of, Table II.

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Obstacles in the field to vision

to measurement

Ordinates of circular curves, to find

of parabola, to find

of a 1 curve, Table X,

Parabola, ordinates of

Plane trigonometry

Powers and roots of numbers by logarithms.

Propositions, general, in trigonometry
Protractor for curves described.

how to make

Rails, table of spring for trackmen Radius of a curve, how to find.. of a turnout curve

plain rule for, on curves

for narrow gauges

Radii and their logarithms, Table X.

Records, forms for

Refraction and curvature, correction for

Reversed curves. See Curves.

Rise per mile of various grades, Table XVII.

Rod, levelling

how to read.

Rodman, duties of

Roods and perches in decimals of an acre, Table IV.

Roots and powers of numbers by logarithms

Senior assistant, duties of

equipment for

Sines defined

Shadows, to fix true north by
Slopes for topography, Table XV
Slopeman, duties of

Slope stakes, to set

for earth excavation.

for embankment

for hillsides and rock

field record of work

Spring of rails, table for trackmen ̧.

Squares, cubes, and roots of numbers, Table XI.

Supplement of an angle

Survey, form for record

to facilitate

Switch-rails, angles of

tables of

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73

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36

155

36, 59

12

7

15

84

85

143

52, 54, 56

129

133

134

155

81

28

317

28

42

83

151

7

80

81

12

44

315

84

30

31

33

35

34

143

161

12

81

82

130

135, 136

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