Light Railways As a Practical Means of Exploration (Classic Reprint)

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A great portion of my professional career having been passed in the execution of public works where such railways as I shall describe form a prominent feature, and having been employed myself in their laying out and construction in countries to some extent remote from civilisation, and where the engineer is much thrown on his own and such native resources as he is able to obtain to carry out the work entrusted to his care, I have attempted to give my experience in this little book. My object, then, is to point out the advantage of constructing portable, light, and inexpensive narrow-gauge railways similar to such as I have laid out and constructed in some of the more unexplored parts of Brazil, not necessarily at first for the development of any particular commercial industry, but merely as a means, and, in my opinion, the best and most inexpensive means, of preliminary exploration.

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