Career
The saying that An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two is attributed to him. He was involved in the design and construction of new railways in Mexico. He was chief engineer of the Toledo and Canada Southern Railroad.
He was born on December 25, 1847 in Waltham, Massachusetts to Oliver Hastings Wellington and Charlotte Augusta Kent.
In 1889 he wrote The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways. He died on May 26, 1895 in New York at age 47.
The American Society of Civil Engineers awards the Arthur M. Wellington Prize. His book The economic theory of the location of railways was first published in 1887 by the Railroad Gazette and John Wiley New New York
The subtitle was An analysis of the conditions which govern the judicious adjustment of gradients, curvature and length of line to each other, and to the character and volume of traffic.
The 5th edition had the subtitle An analysis of the conditions controlling the laying out of railways to effect the most judicious expenditure of capital. He indicated the importance of the ruling gradient, and its effect on train loads and running costs. By 1906 (1914??) it was in its 6th edition and had also been printed in London.
