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PREFACE

edition of seven hundred copies of a four hundred fifty page book which

was printed in 1933 by the Powers Press of Ames, Iowa. The informal

edition was used in eleven colleges by at least eighteen instructors, many

of whom have given helpful constructive criticisms.

In addition to the acknowledgments which have been made in the

text for material from other sources, especial appreciation for splendid

cooperation and the use of drawings, photographs, tables, and other

material is expressed to the American Association of State Highway

Officials; American Bridge Company; American Institute of Steel Con-

struction; American Railway Engineering Association; American So-

ciety of Civil Engineers; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway;

Chicago and Northwestern Railway; Engineering News-Record; Iowa

Highway Commission; McClintic-Marshall Corporation; National

Lumber Manufacturers Association; Northern Pacific Railway; Pitts-

burgh and West Virginia Railway; Texas and Pacific Railway; The

Austin Company; Union Pacific Railway; and the U. S. Bureau of Public

Roads.

Appreciation is also expressed to Charles W. Deans, M.S., for a

large part in the preparation of Chapter XII; and to Raymond G.

Paustian, Instructor in Civil Engineering, Iowa State College, for much

of the work and the general supervision of the preparation of drawings.

May, 1936. Almon H. Fuller

Frank Kerekes

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