With over four hundred illustrations, author C. Hamilton Ellis has amassed a pictorial history of the first 150 years of railroad history, a time when the country moved and business boomed because of rail transportation.  In modern time Americans mostly think of trains as a slow and uncomfortable alternative for a mandatory commute to and from work.  But there was a time, in the not-so-distant past,  when the railroad first lifted America from a sleepy agricultural country to a booming industrial power, then moved its people to previously unopened lands with a speed and efficiency previously unknown.  In this book, with these pictures, you can relive those times.  The book is a hardcover measuring 9 by 11 inches in Very Good Condition with a Very Good Dustjacket. There is a former owner's name inside.