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The American Railway

It's Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances
by
Thomas Curtis Clarke; John Bogart; M N Forney; E P Alexander; H G Prout; Horace Porter; Theodore Voorhees; Benjamin Norton;
Arthur T Hadley; Thomas L James; Charles Francis Adams; B B Adams Jr, Introduction by Thomas M Cooley




COPYRIGHT: 1988
PUBLISHER: Castle
PAGES: 456 pgs measuring 6" x 9"
CONDITION: This is a modern reproduction of the rare 1889 book by the same title and authors. There is minor edgewear to the boards and corner bumping. Previous owner's gift inscription on first blank page. No hinge cracking inside or out at neither the front or the back. There is a small tear at the top front of the spine, about ½" long and not fragile. There are a few light age spots on the closed book page edges. Dustjacket has minor edgewear and chipping.

This 1988 book is also out-of-print and is an excellent opportunity to add a copy of this rare book to your library at a fraction of the cost of an original. I've included a scan of a couple of pages from the original 1888, 1889 book from my library and the corresponding pages from this book so you can see this is a true, unabridged copy of that rare 1888, 1889 edition. The print of the 1988 book is just a little larger than the original. The pages in the book for sale are quality bond.

What a treat this book will be! This book is filled with beautiful detailed drawings of all aspects of the early railroad industry, visual representations of great steam engines, graceful bridge, life in a Pullman car, railway accidents, views of track construction, and portraits of railroad pioneers and magnates of the time. They are some of the finest I've seen. Read about the equipment, job descriptions, movers and shakers in the railroad business at the time, history of the industry from 1888, trials and problems looming for the period. There are chapters on the construction of American locomotives and passenger cars with a fascinating description of the history of the Pullman car - a truly American improvement in passenger service necessitated by the great distances traveled by the system. There are also chapters on railroad management; safety; freight car service; railroad restaurants; how the trains carried the mail, the prevention of railroad strikes, and the everyday life of railroad men. The technical chapters in the book are never too complicated for the average reader. Quite the opposite, they are written in such a way that the 'Yankee pride' in inventiveness makes them unusually interesting reading.

CONTENTS: Introduction

Building of a Railway: Roman Tramways of Stone • First Use of Iron Rails • Modern Railway created by Stephenson's "Rocket" in 1830 • Early American Locomotives • Key to Evolution of American Railway • Invention of Swivelling Truck, Equalizing Beams, and Switchback • Locating a Road • Work of Surveying Party • Making Road-bed • How Tunnels are Avoided • More than Three Thousand Bridges in US • Old Wooden Structures • Howe Truss • Use of Iron • Viaducts of Steel • American System of Laying Bridge Foundations under Water • Origin of the Cantilever • Laying Track • How it is Kept in Repair • Premiums for Section Bosses • Number of Railway Employees in US • Rapid Railway Construction • Radical Changes which Railway will Effect


Feats Of Railway Engineering: Development of Rail • Engineer Problems • How Heights are Climbed • Use of Trestles • Construction on a Mountain Side • Engineering on Rope Ladders • Through Portals of a Cañon • Feats on Oroya Railroad, Peru • Nochistongo Cut • Rack Rails for Heavy Grades • Difficulties in Tunnel Construction • Bridge Foundations • Cribs and Pneumatic Caissons • How Men work under Water • Construction of Stone Arches • Wood and Iron in Bridge-building • Great Suspension Bridges • Niagara Cantilever and enormous Forth Bridge • Elevated and Underground Roads • Civil Engineer Responsibilities
American Locomotives and Cars: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1830 • Evolution of the Car from Conestoga Wagon • Horatio Allen's Trial Trip • First Locomotive used in US • Peter Cooper's Race with a Gray Horse • "De Witt Clinton" "Planet" and other Early Types of Locomotives • Equalizing Levers • How Steam is Made and Controlled • Boiler, Cylinder, injector, and Valve Gear • Regulation of Capacity of a Locomotive to Draw • Increase in Number of Driving Wheels • Modern Types of Locomotives • Rate of Speed Variation • Engine is Governed Appliances • Round-houses and Shops • Development of American Cars • Illustration from Peter Parley • Survival of Stage Coach Bodies • Adoption of Rectangular Shape • Origin of Eight-wheeled Cars • Improvement in Car Coupling • Uniform Type Recommended • Making of Wheels • Relative Merits of Cast and Wrought Iron, and Steel • Allen Paper Wheel • Types of Cars, with Size, Weight, and Price • Car-Builder's Dictionaly • Statistical



Railway Management: Relations of Railway Management to all Other Pursuits • Developed by Necessities of Complex Industrial Life • How Continuous Life is Given to a Corporation • Artificial Memory • Main Divisions of Railway Management • Executive and Legislative Powers • Purchasing and Supply Departments • Legal Department Importance • How Roadway is Kept in Repair • Maintenance of Rolling Stock • Schedule-making • Handling of Extra Trains Train despatcher Duties • Accidents in Spite of Precautions • Daily Distribution of Cars • How Business is Secured and Rates are Fixed • Interstate Commerce Law • Questions of "Long and Short Hauls" and "Differentials" • Classification of Freight • Passenger-rates Regulation • Soliciting Agents Work • Revenue and Statistics Collection •What is a Way-bill • How Disbursements are Made • Social and Industrial Problem which Confronts Railway Corporations
Safety In Railroad Travel: Possibilities of Destruction in Great Speed of a Locomotive • Energy of Four Hundred Tons Moving at Seventy-five Miles an Hour • Look ahead from a Locomotive at Night • Passengers Killed and Injured in One Year • Good Discipline the Great Source of Safety • Part Played by Mechanical Appliances • Hand-brakes on Old Cars • How Air-brake Works • Electric Brake • Improvements yet to be Made • Engine Driver Brakes • Two Classes of Signals: Protect Points of Danger, and those which Keep an Interval between Trains on Same Track • Semaphore • Interlocking Signals and Switches • Electric Annunciators to Indicate Movements • Block Signal System • Protection for Crossings • Gates and Gongs • How Derailment is Guarded Against • Safety Bolts • Automatic Couplers • Vestibule as a Safety Appliance • Car Heating and Lighting

Railway Passenger Travel: Earliest Railway Passenger Advertisement • First Time-table Published in America • Mohawk & Hudson Train • Survival of Stagecoach Terms in English Railway Nomenclature • Simon Cameron's Rash Prediction • Discomforts of Early Cars • Introduction of Airbrakes, Patent Buffers and Couplers, Bell-cord, and Interlocking Switches • First Sleeping cars • Mr Pullman's Experiments • The "Pioneer" • Introduction of Parlor and Drawing-room Cars • Demand for Dining cars • Ingenious Devices for Heating Cars • Origin of Vestibule cars • Important Safety Appliance • Luxuries of a Limited Express • Fast Time in America and England • Sleeping cars for Immigrants • Village of Pullman • Largest Car works in World • Baggage-checks and Coupon Tickets • Conveniences in a Modern Depot • Statistics in Regard to Accidents • Proportion of Passengers in Various Classes • Comparison of Rates in Leading Countries of World

Freight-Car Service: Sixteen Months' Journey of a Car • Detentions by the Way • Difficulties of Car Accountant's Office • Necessities of Through Freight • How a Company's Cars are Scattered • Question of Mileage • Reduction of Balance in Favor of Other Roads • Relation of Car Accountant's Work to the Transportation Department • Computation of Mileage • Record Branch • How Reports are Gathered and Compiled • Exchange of "Junction Cards" • Use of "Tracers" • Distribution of Empty Cars • Control of Movement of Freight • How Trains are Made Up • Yardmaster Duties • Handling of Through Trains • Organization of Fast Lines • Transfer Freight Houses • Special Cars for Specific Service • Disasters to Freight Trains • How Companies Suffer • Inequalities in Payment for Car Service • Per Diem Plan • Uniform Charge for Car Rental • What Reforms might be Accomplished
How To Feed a Railway: Many Necessities of a Modern Railway • Purchasing and Supply Departments • Comparison with Commissary Department of an Army • Financial Importance • Immense Expenditures • General Storehouse • Duties of Purchasing Agent • Best Material the Cheapest • Profits from Scrap-heap • Old Rails Worked over into New Implements • Yearly Contracts for Staple Articles • Economy in Fuel • Tests by Best Engineers and Firemen • Stationery Supply • Aggregate Annual Cost of Envelopes, Tickets, and Time-tables • Average Life of Rails • Durability of Cross-ties • What it Costs per Mile to Run an Engine • Paymaster's Duties • Scenes during Trip of a Pay-car

Railway Mail Service: Object Lesson in Postal Progress • Nearness of Department to People • First Traveling Post-Office in United States • Organization of Department in 1789 • Early Mail Contracts • Railroads made Post-routes • Compartments for Mail Clerks in Baggage-cars • Origin of Present System in 1862 • Work of Colonel George S Bangs • "Fast Mail" between New York and Chicago • Why it was Suspended • Resumption in 1877 • Present Condition of Service • Statistics • Ride on "Fast Mail " • Busy Scenes at Grand Central Depot • Special Uses of Five Cars • Duties of Clerks • How Work is Performed • Annual Appropriation for Special Mail Facilities • Dangers Threatening Railway Mail Clerk's Life • Insurance Fund Proposed • Needs of Service • Plea for Radical Civil Service Reform
Railway In Its Business Relations: Amount of Capital Invested in Railways • Important Place in Modern Industrial System • Duke of Bridgewater's Foresight • Growth of Half a Century • Early Methods of Business Management • Tendency toward Consolidation • How War Developed a National Idea • Its Effect on Railroad Building • Thomson and Scott as Organizers • Vanderbilt's Capacity for Financial Management • Garrett's Development of Baltimore & Ohio • Concentration of Immense Power in a Few Men • Making Money out of Investors • Difficult Positions of Stockholders and Bondholders • How Finances are Manipulated by Board of Directors • Temptations to Misuse of Power • Relations of Railroads to Public who Use Them • Inequalities in Freight Rates • Undue Advantages for Large Trade Centres • Proposed Remedies • Objections to Government Control • Failure of Grangerism • Origin of Pools • Their Advantages • Albert Fink's Great Work • Charles Francis Adams and Massachusetts Commission • Adoption of Interstate Commerce Law • Important Influence of Commission • Its Future Functions • Ill-judged State Legislation

Prevention of Railway Strikes: Railways the Largest Single Interest in United States • Some Impressive Statistics • Growth of a Complex Organization • Five Divisions of Necessary Work • Other Special Departments • Importance of Operating Department • Evil of Strikes • To be Remedied by Thorough Organization • Not Ordinary Relation between Employer and Employee • Of what Model Railway Service Should Consist • Temporary and Permanent Employees • Promotion from one Grade to Other • Rights and Privileges of Permanent Service • Employment during Good Behavior • Proposed Tribunal for Adjusting Differences and Enforcing Discipline • A Regular Advance in Pay for Faithful Service • A Fund for Hospital Service, Pensions, and Insurance • Railroad Educational Institutions • Employer to Have a Voice in Management through a Council • System of Representation



Every-Day Life of Railroad Men: Typical Railroad Man • On Road and at Home • Raising Moral Standard • Characteristics of Freight Brakeman • His Wit Result of Meditation • How Slang is Originated • Agreeable Features of his Life in Fine Weather • Hardships in Winter • Perils of Hand-brakes • Broken Trains • Going back to Flag • Coupling Accidents • At the Spring • Advantages of a Passenger Brakeman • Trials of Freight Conductor • Investigation of Accidents • Irregular Hours of Work • Locomotive Engineer the Hero of the Rail • His Rare Qualities • Value of Quick Judgment • Calm Fidelity a Necessary Trait • Saving Fuel on a Freight Engine • Making Time on a Passenger Engine • Remarkable Runs • Spirit of Fraternity among Engineers • Difficult Duties of a Passenger-train Conductor • Tact in Dealing with Many People • Questions to be Answered • How Rough Characters are Dealt with • Heavy Responsibilities • Widlam • Work of a Station Agent • Flirtation by Telegraph • Baggage-master's Hard Task • Eternal Vigilance Necessary in a Switch-tender • Sectionmen, Train Despatchers, Firemen, and Clerks • Efforts to Make Railroad Man's Life Easier
Statistical Railway Studies Illustrated With 13 Maps and 19 Charts: Author of Scribner's Statistical Atlas: Railway Mileage of World • Railway Mileage of United States • Annual Mileage and Increase • Mileage compared with Area • Geographical Location of Railways • Centres of Mileage and of Population • Railway Systems • Trunk Lines Compared: By Mileage; Largest Receipts; Largest Net Results • Freight Traffic • Reduction of Freight Rates • Wheat Rates • Freight Haul • Empty Freight Trains • Freight Profits • Passenger Traffic • Passenger Rates • Passenger Travel • Passenger Profits • General Considerations • Dividends • Net Earnings per Mile and Railway Building • Ratios of Increase • Construction and Maintenance • Employees and their Wages • Rolling Stock • Capital Invested
Full-page illustrations: Last Span(Frontispiece) • Alpine Pass avoidance of tunnel • Big Loop, Georgetown Branch of Union Pacific, Colorado • Snow sheds, Selkirk Mountains, Canadian Pacific • Rail making • Loop and Great Trestle near Hagerman's, Colorado Midland Railway • Portal of tunnel in construction • Work in a pneumatic Caisson, 50' below water surface • Below Brooklyn Bridge • St Louis Bridge construction • Typical American passenger locomotive • Interior of a roundhouse • Inside locomotive erecting shop • Diagram used in making railway timetables • General dispatcher • Mantua Junction, West Philadelphia, system of interlacing tracks • Danger ahead • Interlock apparatus for operating switches and signals by compressed air, Pittsburgh Yards, PRR • Pullman vestibuled cars in baggage room • 'Show your tickets!' • Freight yards of New York Central & Hudson River RR, West 65th St, NYC • Freight from all quarters • Typical trains at way station, Postmaster's assistant • Transfer of mail at Grand Central Station, NYC • Sorting letters in car No. 1 • Breakdown • Waiting room of country station • Trials of a baggage master


Illustrations in the text: First Locomotive • Locomotive of To-day • Sharp Curve, Manhattan Elevated Railway, 110th Street, New York • Steep Grade on a Mountain Railroad • Switchback • Plan of Big Loop • Profile of Same • Engineers in Camp • Royal Gorge Hanging Bridge, Denver and Rio Grande, Colorado • Veta Pass, Colorado • Sections of Snow-sheds (3 cuts) • Making an Embankment • Steam Excavator • Building a Culvert • Building a Bridge Abutment • Rock Drill • Construction and Boarding Train • Bergen Tunnels, Hoboken, NJ • Beginning a Tunnel • Old Burr Wooden Bridge • Kinzua Viaduct; Erie Railway • Kinzua Viaduct • View of Thomas Pope's Proposed Cantilever (1810) • Pope's Cantilever in Process of Erection • General View of Poüghkeepsie Bridge • Erection of a Cantilever • Spiking Track • Track Laying • Temporary Railway Crossing St Lawrence on the Ice • View Down the Blue from Rocky Point, Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad;showing successive tiers of railway • Denver and Rio Grande Railway Entering the Portals of the Grand River Cañon, Colorado • Kentucky River Cantilever, on the Cincinnati Southern Railway • Truss over Ravine, and Tunnel, Oroya Railroad, Peru • The Nochistongo Cut, Mexican Central Railway • Mount Washington Rack Railroad • Trestle on Portland and Ogdensburg Railway, Crawford Notch, White Mountains • Series of Tunnels • Tunnel at the
Foot of Mount St Stephen, on the Canadian Pacific • Pefia de Mora on the La Guayra and Caracas Railway, Venezuela • Perspective View of St Gothard Spiral Tunnels, in the Alps • Plan of St Gothard Spiral Tunnels • Profile of the Same • Portal of a Finished Tunnel; showing Cameron's Cone, Colorado • Railway Pass at Rocky Point in the Rocky Mountains • Bridge Pier Founded on Piles • Pneumatic Caisson • Transverse Section of Pneumatic Caisson • Pier of Hawkesbury Bridge, Australia • Foundation Crib of the Poughkeepsie Bridge • Transverse Section of the Same • Granite Arched Approach to Harlem River Bridge in Process of Construction • The Old Portage Viaduct, Erie Railway, NY • New Portage Viaduct • Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits, North Wales • Old Stone Towers of the Niagara Suspension Bridge • New Iron Towers of the Same • Truss Bridge of the Northern Pacific Railway over the Missouri River at Bismarck, Dak, Testing the Central Span • Curved Viaduct, Georgetown, Col; Union Pacific Crossing • The Niagara Cantilever Bridge in Progress • Maldiw • Niagara Cantilever Bridge Completed • Lachine Bridge, on Canadian Pacific Railway, near Montreal, Canada • 510-feet Span Steel Arches of New Harlem River Bridge, New York, during Construction • London Underground Railway Station • Conestoga Wagon and Team • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1830-35 • Boston & Worcester Railroad, 1835 • Horatio Allen • Peter Cooper's Locomotive, 1830 • "South Carolina," 1831, and Plan of its Running Gear • The "De Witt Clinton," 1831 • "Grasshopper" Locomotive • The "Planet" • John B Jervis's Locomotive, 1831, and Plan of its Running Gear • Campbell's Locomotive • Locomotive for Suburban Traffic • Locomotive for Street Railway • Four-wheeled Switching Locomotive • Driving Wheels, Frames, Spurs, etc, of American Locomotive • Longitudinal Section of a Locomotive Boiler • Transverse Section • Rudimentary Injector • Injector Used on Locomotives • Sections of a Locomotive Cylinder • Eccentric • Eccentric and Strap • Valve Gear • Turning Locomotive Tires • Six-wheeled Switching Locomotive • Mogul Locomotive • Ten-wheeled Passenger Locomotive • Consolidation Locomotive (unfinished) • Consolidation Locomotive • Decapod Locomotive • "Forney" Tank Locomotive • "Hudson" Tank Locomotive • Camden & Amboy Locomotive, 1848 • Cab End of a Locomotive and its Attachments • Interior of Erecting Shop, showing Locomotive Lifted by Travelling Crane • Forging a Locomotive Frame • Mohawk & Hudson Car, 1831 • Early Car • Early Car on Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad • Early American Car, 1834 • Old Car for Carrying Flour on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad • Old Car for Carrying Firewood on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad • Old Car on Quincy Granite Railroad • Janney Car Coupler, showing Process of Coupling • Mould and Flask in which Wheels are Cast • Cast-iron Car Wheels • Section of Tread and Flange of a Car Wheel • Allen Paper Car Wheel • Modern Passenger-car and Frame • Snow-plough at Work • A Type of Snow-plough • Rotary Steam Snow-shovel in Operation • Railway-crossing Gate • Signal to Stop • Signal to Move Ahead • Signal to Move Back • Signal that Train has Parted • Entrance Gates at a Large Station • Central Switch and Signal Tower • Interior of a Switch-tower, showing Operation of Interlocking Switches • Stephenson's Steam Driver-brake, patented 1833 • Driver-brake on Modern Locomotive • English Screw-brake, on Birmingham and Gloucester Road, about 1840 • English Foot-brake on Truck of a Great Western Coach, about 1840 • Plan and Elevation of Air-brake Apparatus • Dwarf Semaphores and Split Switch • Semaphore Signal with Indicators • Section of Saxby & Farmer Interlocking ‘Machine • Diagram of a Double-track Junction with Interlocked Switches and Signals • Split Switches with Facing-point Locks and Detector-bars • Derailing Switch • Torpedo Placer • Old Signal Tower on Philadelphia & Reading, at Phenixville • Crossing Gates worked by Mechanical Connection from Cabin • Some Results of a Butting Collision, Baggage and Passenger Cars Telescoped • Wreck at a Bridge • New South Norwalk Drawbridge Rails held by Safety Bolts • Engines Wrecked during Great Wabash Strike • Link-and-pin Coupler • Janney Automatic Coupler applied to a Freight Car • Signals at Night • Stockton & Darlington Engine and Car • Mohawk & Hudson Train • English Railway Carriage, Midland Road First and Third Class and Luggage Compartments • One of Earliest Passenger Cars Built in this Country; used on Western Railroad of Massachusetts (now Boston & Albany) • Bogie Truck • Rail and Coach Travel in White Mountains • Old Time Table, 1843 • Old Boston & Worcester Railway Ticket (about 1837) • Obverse and Reverse of a Ticket used in 1838, on New York & Harlem Railroad • "Pioneer" First Complete Pullman Sleeping-car • A Pullman Porter • Pullman Parlor Car • Wagner Parlor Car • Dining-car (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad) • End View of a Vestibuled Car • Pullman Sleeper on a Vestibuled Train • Immigrant Sleeping-car (Canadian Pacific Railway) • View of Pullman, Ill • Railway Station at York, England, built on a Curve • Outside Grand Central Station, New York • Boston Passenger Station, Providence Division, Old Colony Railroad • A Page from Car Accountant's Book • Freight Pier, North River, New York • Hay Storage Warehouses, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, West • Thirty-third Street, New York • "Dummy" Train and Boy on Hudson Street, New York • Red Line Freight-car Mark • Star Union Freight-car Mark • Coal Car, CentraL Railroad of New Jersey • Refrigerator car Mark • Unloading a Train of Truck-wagons, Long Island Railroad • Floating Cars, New York Harbor • Postal Progress, 1776-1876 • Pony Express, The Relay • Overland Mail Coach, A Star Route • Mail Carrying in Country • Loading for Fast Mail, at General Post-Office, New York • At the Last Moment • Pouching Mail in Postal Car • A Very Difficult Addres, known as a "Sticker" • Distributing Mail by States and Routes • Pouching Newspapers for California in Car No 5 • Catching Pouch from Crane • George Stephenson • J Edgar Thomson • Thomas A Scott • Cornelius Vanderbilt • John W Garrett • Albert Fink • Charles Francis Adams • Thomas M Cooley • "Dancing on Carpet " • Trainman and Tramps • Braking in Hard Weather • Flagging in Winter • Coupling • Pleasant Part of a Brakeman's Life • At Spring • Just Time to Jump • Timely Warning • Passenger Conductor • Station Gardening • In Yard at Night • A Track-walker on a Stormy Night • A Crossing Flagman

MAPS: Mileage compared with Area
Railways, 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860
Railways, 1870
Railways, 1880
Railways, 1889
Five Railway Systems
CHARTS: Principal Railway Countries • Mileage to Area in New Jersey • Total Mileage and Increase, 1830-1888 • Mileage by States, 1870 • Mileage by States,1880 • Mileage by States, 18880• Largest Receipts,1888 • Largest Net Results, 1888 • Freight Rates of Thirteen Trunk Lines, 1870-1888 • Wheat Rates, by Water and by Rail, 1870-1888 • Freight Haul, 1882-1888 • East-bound and West-bound Freight, 1877-1888 • Freight Profits, 1870-1888 • Passenger Rates, 1870-1888 • Passenger Travel, 1882-1888 • Passenger Profits, 1870-1888 • Average Dividends, 1876-1888 • Net Earnings and Mileage Built, 1876-1888 • Increase of Population, Mileage, and Freight Traffic, 1870-1888


Items, people, topics in book: ACCIDENTS, chances of, at crossings, from coupling cars, investigation of, to railway bridges, South Norwalk, statistics of, to trainmen, to trains, origin of • Adams, Charles Francis • Air-brake • Allen, Horatio • Arbitration between railways and their employees • Armstrong, Colonel G G • Atkinson, Edward • Auditor's duties

BAGGAGE-CHECK SYSTEM • Baggage-master • Baggage transportation • Baldwin Locomotive Works • Ballast of a railway • Baltimore & Ohio, cars, early passenger-trains, in 1830 • Bangs, George S • Bell-cord train-signal • Bessemer, Sir Henry • Bessemer steel, invention • Blame, James G • Blair, Montgomery • Block-signal, automatic • Boilers, construction • Brake, air • advantages of air, improvements suggested to air-, American, and coupler, Beals, chain, continuous, early forms of, electric, hand; perils; how to manage, hydraulic, steam driver-, trials at Burlington, vacuum, water, Westinghouse air • Brakemen, characteristics of, duties of, of, passenger-train, advantages of, pleasures of, wit of, result of meditation • Bridges, railway, accidents to,American iron, American, development of,American wooden, and culverts, how built, Bismarck, Britannia, builders, cantilever, connecting two tunnels, connections, types of, foundations by crib or open caisson • Bridges, foundations by pneumatic caisson, foundations, how made, foundations under water, gangs, work of, great, over canons and valleys, guard-rails and frogs, Hawkesbury River, Howe truss, how to build safe, Kentucky River, Kinzua, Lachine, masonry arch, Niagara cantilever, Portage, Poughkeepsie, steel truss, development of, strength of, St Louis, trusses, types of, tubular, typical American truss, Verrugas, Victoria, Washington, over Harlem River, wooden, wood, stone, and iron • Bridgers, R R • Broken trains, dangers • Burr & Wernwag

CAISSONS FOR BRIDGE FOUNDATIONS, how made, open, pneumatic • Camden & Amboy locomotives • Cameron, Simon, prediction • Campbell, Henry R • Cantilever bridges • Capital invested in railways • Car-builders' dictionary • Car-couplers, imperfections • Car-coupling, accidents • Cars, American and English, American, evolution of, Baltimore & Ohio freight-, different kinds of, old, discomforts of, empty, distribution of, first American passenger-, first sleeping-, freight-, wanderings of a, heating by gas, heating by steam, heating, methods; lighting safely, mileage charges, Mohawk & Hudson passenger-, number of, in United States, records of movement, service charges, per-diem plan, service of, payment for, service records and reports, tracers for, trucks, invention of, use and abuse • Car-wheels, European • Cassatt, A J • Check system for baggage • Chief engineer, duties • Chimbote Railway in Andes • Classifications of freight • Clerks, railway • Coffer-dam foundations for bridges • Commissions to passenger agents • Competing points and pools • Concentration of power • Conducting transportation • Conductors, freight, trials of • Consolidation • Construction companies • Contractors, railway • Conveniences at stations • Cooley, Judge Thomas M • Cooper, Peter • Council, proposed railway • Couplers and brakes, imperfections of, uniform automatic • Coupling cars, accidents from • Coupon tickets • Cox, S S • Cranes, large travelling, in locomotive shops • Crib foundations for bridge piers • Crises of 1873 and 1885, effects of • Crossings, accidents at, protection • Cullom, Senator S M • Culverts, building of, log, masonry, on American railways • Curves, American and European railway • Cutting, largest ever made • Cylinders, locomotive, construction

DARWIN, ERASMUS • Davis & Gartner • Davis, Phineas • Davis, W A • Death and accident provisions for postal clerks • Delays in a long journey • Delaware & Hudson Canal Company • Dernurrage charges • Derailing switches, use • Derailments of trains, causes • Destructive force of a locomotive at high speed • Detector-bar for switches • Differentials • Dining-cars, introduction • Discipline necessary on a railway • Distribution of cars • Dividends, average, on railway stock • Drawbridge accident • Driving-wheels, large and small

EADS, CAPTAIN JAMES B • Eames vacuum brake • Educational institutions for railway employees • Electric annunciator for signals • Electric lights for cars • Electricity applied to brakes • Elevated Railroad, New York • Employees, railway, benefit funds, promotion of, permanency of service during good behavior, relations of, to railway, representative system for, rights and privileges of permanent,have a voice in management, wages of • Engineer, as a public benefactor, civil, qualifications

FAST FREIGHT LINES • Fast mail service • Fast mail train • Fast runs • Fast time on railways, conditions • Field & Hayes • Fink, Albert • Fisk, James, Jr • Flagging trains • Foot-guard for frogs • Foreign cars • Foster, Rastrick & Company • Free-pass system • Freight-car wanderings,classifications and rates,conductor and his trials,department, organization of, engines, saving fuel on, empty trains of, handlers at stations, movement, accidents; cost of delays • Freight profits, rates, reduction of, traffic • Freight trains, air-brakes
GARRETT, JOHN W • Gate-tenders on railway • General Manager • Goold, James • Grand Central Stationinterlocking signals • Grand River cañon • Granger movement • Guard-rails and frogs for bridges

HAMLIN, HANNIBAL • Hampson, John • Harrison, Joseph, Jr • Hawkesbury River bridge • Heater-cars, Eastman • Heating cars • Highway crossing accidents • Holley, Alexander L • Hoosac Tunnel • Hospital funds for railway employees • Hotel-cars • Howe-truss bridges

IMMIGRANT SLEEPING-CARS

JAMESON, JOHN • Janney car-coupler • Jervis, John B • Johnson, R P • Junction-cards and car-reports

KENTUCKY RIVER CANTILEVER BRIDGE • King, Porter • Kinzua Bridge

LACHINE BRIDGE • Latimer, Charles • Latrobe, Benjamin H • Layng, J D • Legal department of a railway • Lighting cars, safe methods • Lincoln, Abraham, in first sleeping-car • Locomotives, ability to climb grades, American type, origin of, Baltimore & Ohio "grasshopper," boiler construction, cab, capacity to draw loads, consolidation, cost of running, cylinders, how supplied with steam, decapod, destructive force of, at high speed, "DeWitt Clinton," driving-wheels, how made, earliest American, early eight-wheeled, engineer, duties and qualifications of; peculiarities of; duties and dangers of; spirit of fraternity • English type of, equalizing levers, fireman • Locomotives, first trial of, in America, fuel, hostler, how to start and stop, "John Bull," Mogul, Peter Cooper's, prize offered for, by Baltimore & Ohio, pumps and injectors, running gear, shops, size, weight, speed, law of, suburban traffic, ten-wheeled, trials, Liverpool & Manchester Railway, truck, invention of, types of, valve motion • London Underground Railway • "Long and short haul"

MAIL SERViCE, railway, civil service • Mail train • Masonry arch bridges • Massachusetts Railroad Commission • Master Car Builders' Association • Master car-builder's duties • Master mechanic's work • Master of transportation • Mexican Central Railway • Mileage balance • Miller coupler and buffer • Miller, Ezra • Mohawk & Hudson passenger-cars • Mont Cenis Tunnel • Moral standard on railway • Mount Washington Railway • Mountain climbing by rack railways

NATIONAL REGULATION of railways • Newell, John • New York Elevated Railways • Niagara cantilever bridge, suspension bridge • Nochistongo cut

OPERATING DEPARTMENT OF A RAILWAY • Oroya Railway in Andes • Outram, Benjamin

PAPER CAR-WHEELS • Passenger advertisement, brakeman,burned in wrecks, cars, early; English and American; first American; manufacture; Mohawk & Hudson, conductor, profits, rates and commissions, tickets, traffic, trains, first; early American, making time on, travel; speed • Pay-car, trip • Pay, increase • Paymaster's work • Parallel roads • Pensions for railway employees • Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona • Permanent service of a railway • Pile-driver, work • Pile foundations for bridges • Pneumatic caissons for bridge foundations • Pooling rates • Pools and competing points • Pope, Thomas • Portage Bridge • Postal cars • Postal clerks • Postal progress • Postal service, early history • Potter, Thomas J • Poughkeepsie cantilever bridge • Predecessors of railway • Premiums to section-men • Promotion of employees • Pullman, George M • Palace Car Company, sleeper, first • Purchasing agent's varied duties

RAILS, development of, increased weight of, iron, first used, joints for, steel, first introduction, supply and renewal of, weight which they will carry • Railroading fifty years ago • Railways, American, key to development; rolling stock; beginning of, building, cost; history, competition; with canals, council, proposed, division of expenses • Railways, earnings, average net, per mile, earliest; in America, early systems of management, educational institutions, employees, permanent and temporary, moral welfare of, wages of, income, sources of, influence on world, mail first carried on; needs of; Organization; party injury to, development;; special departments of; stability; subdivisions of, men's building in New York, mileage, comparative, of principal countries, national idea developed by, postal clerks' dangers; just claims; need of provision against disability; work, relations of, to their employees, shop-men, State ownership of, United States, extent of, "wars" between • Samuel J Randall • Rates and rebates • Rates, forced reductions • Reagan, John H • Reconnoissance • Refrigerator cars • Representation for railway employees • Restriction of railways • Ride on a locomotive at night • Road-bed of a railway, how made • Roadway department of a railway • Roberts, George B • Roebling, John A • Rolling stock, growth • Routine of railway mail service • Rutter, J H

SAFETY APPLIANCES, railway, devices needed • St Gothard Tunnel and spirals • St Louis Bridge • Schneider, C C • Scott, Thomas Alexander • Scrap-heap, value • Section-master's duties • Section-men's work • Semaphore signals • Shepard, General D C • Signals and switches, interlocking, automatic block, block system, semaphore, torpedo • Sleeping-car rates • Sleeping-cars, first experiments, immigrant, Pullman • Smith, Colonel C Shaler • Snow-sheds and fences • South American mountain-railways • South Carolina Railway • Special rates • Spreading of rails • State ownership of  railways • State regulation of railways • Station agent's duties • Station indicators • Station, large, work at • Stationery and blanks • Statistics, railway • Steam driver-brake • Steel bridges • Steel rails, first introduction • Steel truss-bridges, development of • Stephenson, George • Stock and bonds, relative position • Storekeeper's duties on a railway • Stockton & Darlington passenger train • "Stourbridge Lion," • Strikes, evils of •  Superintendent, duties • Surveying party • Suspension bridges • Switchbacks and loops • Switches • Switch-tender's work
TELEGRAPH IN RAILROADING • Thompson, William B • Thomson, Frank • Thomson, J Edgar • Tickets, cost of • Ties and timber supplies • Time-tables, cost of, earliest American, how made • Torpedo signals • Track, early experiments with • Trackmen's duties • Track-walker's duties and trials • Trade centres, advantages • Traffic, how influenced and secured • Train despatching • Train orders and rules • Train signals, bell-cord and other • Train work, irregularity • Trainmen, accidents to • Trains, rules for running • Tramways,  Roman, of stone • Transfer freight stations • Trestles • Trevithick, Richard • Tribunal, proposed • Trucks for cars • Trunk lines compared • Trunk-line pool, origin and history • Truss-bridge, typical American • Tubular bridges • Tunnels • Tunnels, American, connected by a bridge, difficulties of construction, great, how avoided, located by triangulation, Mont Cenis, St Gothard

UNDERGROUND RAILWAY, London • Union Pacific Railway system

VACUUM-BRAKE • Vail, Theodore N • Valleys, how crossed by a railway • Valve-motion arrangements • Vanderbilt business methods • Vanderbilt, Commodore • Vanderbilt, Cornelius • Vanderbilt,  William H • Verrugas Viaduct • Vestibule train, luxury • Viaducts, American metal • Victoria Bridge

WADDELL, A • Wagner Palace Car Company • Wagon cars • War, the late, effect of, on railway growth • Washington Bridge over Harlem River • Water-jet method of sinking piles • Watt, James • Way-bill and its theory • Westinghouse air-brake • Westinghouse, George, Jr • West Point Foundry as a locomotive shop • Whipple, Squire • Winans, Ross

YARDMASTER'S DUTIES • Young Men's Christian Association, Railway Department


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