Excerpt from Code of Rules Governing the Condition Of, and Repairs To, Freight Cars for the Interchange of Traffic: Adopted by the Master Car Builders' Association; Revised at Atlantic City, N. J., June, 1911 These rules make car owners responsible for, and therefore chargeable with, the te pairs to their cars necessitated by ordinary wear and tear in fair service, so that defect cards will not be required for any defects thus arising. 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.