WRITTEN BY THE MOST EMINENT AUTHORITIES IN ALL The book is divided into the following chapters, each being complete and full in the treatment of its subject. AN INTRODUCTION BY JUDGE THOMAS M. COOLEY, THE BUILDING OF A RAILWAY. Civil Engineer. FEATS OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING. State Engineer of New York. AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES & CARS. Author of the “Catechism of the Locomotive,” Editor “Railroad and Engineering Journals,” etc. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. SAFETY IN RAILROAD TRAVEL. RAILWAY PASSENGER TRAVEL. THE FREIGHT CAR SERVICE. THE PREVENTION OF RAILWAY STRIKES. HOW TO FEED A RAILWAY. Second Vice-Pres. L. I. R. R. THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. Ex-Postmaster-General. THE RAILWAY IN ITS BUSINESS RELATIONS. Professor Yale College; Author of “Railroad Transportation.” EVERY-DAY LIFE OF RAILROAD MEN. Associate Editor “The Railroad Gazette.” STATISTICAL RAILWAY STUDIES. Author of “Scribner’s Statistical Atlas.” With 225 Illustrations, 13 Maps, and 19 Charts, many being Colored. A Full Index adds much to the Value of the Volume as a Book of Reference. Substantially bound in Half Leather, Octavo, $6.00, net. FOR the first time there is presented in this book an adequate account of the American Railway, an industry representing over nine thousand million dollars in its one hundred and fifty thousand miles of road. The above enumeration of the subjects, which are treated in the volume, is sufficient to show its value and importance, and in preparing it nothing has been left undone which might add to the lasting value and interest of the work. “A large and handsome volume. The various chapters are all by specialists well known as authorities, each in his own field, and the information given, while attractive in form, may be depended upon as entirely trustworthy.”—Boston Beacon. |
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