| PAGE |
| First Locomotive | 2 |
| Locomotive of To-day | 3 |
| A Sharp Curve—Manhattan Elevated Railway, 110th Street, New York | 7 |
| A Steep Grade on a Mountain Railroad | 8 |
| A Switchback | 9 |
| Plan of Big Loop | 10 |
| Profile of the Same | 10 |
| Engineers in Camp | 14 |
| Royal Gorge Hanging Bridge, Denver and Rio Grande, Colorado | 16 |
| Veta Pass, Colorado | 17 |
| Sections of Snow-sheds (3 cuts) | 18 |
| Making an Embankment | 21 |
| Steam Excavator | 21 |
| Building a Culvert | 22 |
| Building a Bridge Abutment | 22 |
| Rock Drill | 23 |
| A Construction and Boarding Train | 24 |
| Bergen Tunnels, Hoboken, N. J. | 25 |
| Beginning a Tunnel | 26 |
| Old Burr Wooden Bridge | 28 |
| Kinzua Viaduct; Erie Railway | 30 |
| Kinzua Viaduct | 31 |
| View of Thomas Pope's Proposed Cantilever (1810) | 34 |
| Pope's Cantilever in Process of Erection | 35 |
| General View of the Poughkeepsie Bridge | 36 |
| Erection of a Cantilever | 37 |
| Spiking the Track | 38 |
| Track Laying | 41 |
| Temporary Railway Crossing the St. Lawrence on the Ice | 44 |
| View Down the Blue from Rocky Point, Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad; showing successive tiers of railway | 49 |
| Denver and Rio Grande Railway Entering the Portals of the Grand River CaÑon, Colorado | 54 |
| The Kentucky River Cantilever, on the Cincinnati Southern Railway | 55 |
| Truss over Ravine, and Tunnel, Oroya Railroad, Peru | 56 |
| The Nochistongo Cut, Mexican Central Railway | 57 |
| The Mount Washington Rack Railroad | 58 |
| Trestle on Portland and Ogdensburg Railway, Crawford Notch, White Mountains | 58 |
| A Series of Tunnels | 59 |
| Tunnel at the Foot of Mount St. Stephen, on the Canadian Pacific | 60 |
| PeÑa de Mora on the La Guayra and CarÁcas Railway, Venezuela | 61 |
| Perspective View of St. Gothard Spiral Tunnels, in the Alps | 62 |
| Plan of St. Gothard Spiral Tunnels | 63 |
| Profile of the Same | 63 |
| Portal of a Finished Tunnel; showing Cameron's Cone, Colorado | 64 |
| Railway Pass at Rocky Point in the Rocky Mountains | 67 |
| Bridge Pier Founded on Piles | 68 |
| Pneumatic Caisson | 70 |
| Transverse Section of Pneumatic Caisson | 71 |
| Pier of Hawkesbury Bridge, Australia | 75 |
| Foundation Crib of the Poughkeepsie Bridge | 76 |
| Transverse Section of the Same | 76 |
| Granite Arched Approach to Harlem River Bridge in Process of Construction | 77 |
| The Old Portage Viaduct, Erie Railway, N. Y. | 78 |
| The New Portage Viaduct | 79 |
| The Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits, North Wales | 80 |
| Old Stone Towers of the Niagara Suspension Bridge | 82 |
| The New Iron Towers of the Same | 82 |
| Truss Bridge of the Northern Pacific Railway over the Missouri River at Bismarck, Dak.—Testing the Central Span | 87 |
| Curved Viaduct, Georgetown, Col.; the Union Pacific Crossing its own Line | 88 |
| The Niagara Cantilever Bridge in Progress | 90 |
| The Niagara Cantilever Bridge Completed | 91 |
| The Lachine Bridge, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, near Montreal, Canada | 92 |
| The 510-feet Span Steel Arches of the New Harlem River Bridge, New York, during Construction | 97 |
| London Underground Railway Station | 98 |
| Conestoga Wagon and Team | 101 |
| Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1830–35 | 101 |
| Boston & Worcester Railroad, 1835 | 102 |
| Horatio Allen | 103 |
| Peter Cooper's Locomotive, 1830 | 104 |
| "South Carolina," 1831, and Plan of its Running Gear | 105 |
| The "De Witt Clinton," 1831 | 105 |
| "Grasshopper" Locomotive | 106 |
| The "Planet" | 107 |
| John B. Jervis's Locomotive, 1831, and Plan of its Running Gear | 108 |
| Campbell's Locomotive | 109 |
| Locomotive for Suburban Traffic | 110 |
| Locomotive for Street Railway | 110 |
| Four-wheeled Switching Locomotive | 113 |
| Driving Wheels, Frames, Spurs, etc., of American Locomotive | 114 |
| Longitudinal Section of a Locomotive Boiler | 115 |
| Transverse Section | 115 |
| Rudimentary Injector | 116 |
| Injector Used on Locomotives | 117 |
| Sections of a Locomotive Cylinder | 118 |
| Eccentric | 118 |
| Eccentric and Strap | 118 |
| Valve Gear | 119 |
| Turning Locomotive Tires | 121 |
| Six-wheeled Switching Locomotive | 122 |
| Mogul Locomotive | 123 |
| Ten-wheeled Passenger Locomotive | 123 |
| Consolidation Locomotive (unfinished) | 124 |
| Consolidation Locomotive | 124 |
| Decapod Locomotive | 125 |
| "Forney" Tank Locomotive | 126 |
| "Hudson" Tank Locomotive | 127 |
| Camden & Amboy Locomotive, 1848 | 129 |
| Cab End of a Locomotive and its Attachments | 133 |
| Interior of Erecting Shop, showing Locomotive Lifted by Travelling Crane | 137 |
| Forging a Locomotive Frame | 138 |
| Mohawk & Hudson Car, 1831 | 139 |
| Early Car | 139 |
| Early Car on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad | 140 |
| Early American Car, 1834 | 140 |
| Old Car for Carrying Flour on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad | 141 |
| Old Car for Carrying Firewood on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad | 141 |
| Old Car on the Quincy Granite Railroad | 141 |
| Janney Car Coupler, showing the Process of Coupling | 142 |
| Mould and Flask in which Wheels are Cast | 143 |
| Cast-iron Car Wheels | 144 |
| Section of the Tread and Flange of a Car Wheel | 145 |
| Allen Paper Car Wheel | 145 |
| Modern Passenger-car and Frame | 147 |
| Snow-plough at Work | 154 |
| A Type of Snow-plough | 155 |
| A Rotary Steam Snow-shovel in Operation | 156 |
| Railway-crossing Gate | 157 |
| Signal to Stop | 162 |
| Signal to Move Ahead | 162 |
| Signal to Move Back | 163 |
| Signal that the Train has Parted | 163 |
| Entrance Gates at a Large Station | 167 |
| Central Switch and Signal Tower | 168 |
| Interior of a Switch-tower, showing the Operation of Interlocking Switches | 171 |
| Stephenson's Steam Driver-brake, patented 1833 | 192 |
| Driver-brake on Modern Locomotive | 192 |
| English Screw-brake, on the Birmingham and Gloucester Road, about 1840 | 193 |
| English Foot-brake on the Truck of a Great Western Coach, about 1840 | 193 |
| Plan and Elevation of Air-brake Apparatus | 196 |
| Dwarf Semaphores and Split Switch | 202 |
| Semaphore Signal with Indicators | 203 |
| Section of Saxby & Farmer Interlocking Machine | 204 |
| Diagram of a Double-track Junction with Interlocked Switches and Signals | 205 |
| Split Switches with Facing-point Locks and Detector-bars | 206 |
| Derailing Switch | 207 |
| Torpedo Placer | 213 |
| Old Signal Tower on the Philadelphia & Reading, at Phoenixville | 214 |
| Crossing Gates worked by Mechanical Connection from the Cabin | 217 |
| Some Results of a Butting Collision—Baggage and Passenger Cars Telescoped | 218 |
| Wreck at a Bridge | 219 |
| New South Norwalk Drawbridge. Rails held by Safety Bolts | 220 |
| Engines Wrecked during the Great Wabash Strike | 222 |
| Link-and-pin Coupler | 224 |
| Janney Automatic Coupler applied to a Freight Car | 224 |
| Signals at Night | 225 |
| Stockton & Darlington Engine and Car | 229 |
| Mohawk & Hudson Train | 231 |
| English Railway Carriage, Midland Road. First and Third Class and Luggage Compartments | 232 |
| One of the Earliest Passenger Cars Built in this Country; used on the Western Railroad of Massachusetts (now the Boston & Albany) | 233 |
| Bogie Truck | 233 |
| Rail and Coach Travel in the White Mountains | 234 |
| Old Time Table, 1843 | 235 |
| Old Boston & Worcester Railway Ticket (about 1837) | 236 |
| Obverse and Reverse of a Ticket used in 1838, on the New York & Harlem Railroad | 236 |
| The "Pioneer." First Complete Pullman Sleeping-car | 240 |
| A Pullman Porter | 241 |
| Pullman Parlor Car | 243 |
| Wagner Parlor Car | 244 |
| Dining-car (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad) | 245 |
| End View of a Vestibuled Car | 249 |
| Pullman Sleeper on a Vestibuled Train | 250 |
| Immigrant Sleeping-car (Canadian Pacific Railway) | 251 |
| View of Pullman, Ill. | 252 |
| Railway Station at York, England, built on a Curve | 257 |
| Outside the Grand Central Station, New York | 258 |
| Boston Passenger Station, Providence Division, Old Colony Railroad | 259 |
| A Page from the Car Accountant's Book | 277 |
| Freight Pier, North River, New York | 280 |
| Hay Storage Warehouses, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, West Thirty-third Street, New York | 282 |
| "Dummy" Train and Boy on Hudson Street, New York | 287 |
| Red Line Freight-car Mark | 288 |
| Star Union Freight-car Mark | 288 |
| Coal Car, Central Railroad of New Jersey | 289 |
| Refrigerator-car Mark | 289 |
| Unloading a Train of Truck-wagons, Long Island Railroad | 290 |
| Floating Cars, New York Harbor | 295 |
| Postal Progress, 1776–1876 | 313 |
| The Pony Express—The Relay | 314 |
| The Overland Mail Coach—A Star Route | 315 |
| Mail Carrying in the Country | 316 |
| Loading for the Fast Mail, at the General Post-Office, New York | 324 |
| At the Last Moment | 326 |
| Pouching the Mail in the Postal Car | 329 |
| A Very Difficult Address—known as a "Sticker." | 331 |
| Distributing the Mail by States and Routes | 332 |
| Pouching Newspapers for California—in Car No. 5 | 335 |
| Catching the Pouch from the Crane | 339 |
| George Stephenson | 345 |
| J. Edgar Thomson | 349 |
| Thomas A. Scott | 350 |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | 352 |
| John W. Garrett | 355 |
| Albert Fink | 366 |
| Charles Francis Adams | 367 |
| Thomas M. Cooley | 369 |
| "Dancing on the Carpet" | 386 |
| Trainman and Tramps | 387 |
| Braking in Hard Weather | 389 |
| Flagging in Winter |
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