Training Manual . — Irkutsk: IRIIT, 2000. — 165 s. IL. 59 . Table3. Appliance. 13. Training manual for course design is intended for students of specialties: 290900 "Construction of railways, track and track" and 240100 "Organization of transportation and management in railway transport" of higher educational institutions of full-time and correspondence forms of education . The manual describes the issues of placement of culverts of the transverse drainage - small and medium-sized bridges and pipes on periodic watercourses. Recommendations for determining the locations of the named ISSO. The questions of calculation of surface runoff according to the method of TsNIIS - SDP, choice of types and holes of culverts with performance of necessary checks are described in detail. The manual contains reference materials , necessary for the implementation of the course project on the topic "Project of the section of the new railway line" in the discipline "Research and design of railways" for specialty 290900 and control work No. 2 "Project of the section of the new railway line" in the discipline "Fundamentals of geodesy and design of railways" for specialty 240100.