A close, detailed look at how engineers and lawyers weigh route choices and costs.
This book presents a careful debate over how to compare two railway routes to Wheeling, focusing on trade volume, distance measurements, and the true costs of operation. It shows how parties dispute methods, seek a fair basis, and ground conclusions in actual experience and official data.
- It explains how preliminary facts are mutually admitted to frame the dispute.
- It compares methods for equating distances and estimating costs per mile.
- It discusses the role of real-world operating data from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
- It examines plans for how time, wear, and repairs influence overall value.
Ideal for readers of historical engineering debates and 19th-century infrastructure arbitration, this edition clarifies how technical and legal considerations interact in route decisions.