As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American
Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association is also acting
for the American Railway Association; and the latter organization has
guaranteed to it the necessary funds to make exhaustive tests and
observations as to the wear, breakage, etc., etc., of steel rails. This
work is being prosecuted, and will of necessity require several years.

Your Committee feels that it has nothing to add to the several reports
which it has presented to the Society, particularly as, so far, the
several cardinal principles outlined in them are being practically
followed in the several used and proposed specifications and rail
sections.

In view of the foregoing, your Committee would respectfully ask to be
discharged so that the field may be clear if at any future time the
Society should desire to again place the subject in the hands of a
Committee.

JOSEPH T. RICHARDS,
C. W. BUCHHOLZ,
E. C. CARTER,
S. M. FELTON,
ROBERT W. HUNT,
JOHN D. ISAACS,
RICHARD MONTFORT,
H. G. PROUT,
PERCIVAL ROBERTS, JR.,
GEORGE E. THACKRAY,
EDMUND K. TURNER,