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The american railway : its construction, development, management, and appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke [et al]. With an introduction by Thomas M. Cooley ; with more than 200 illustrations
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Tr.4122
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads.
- Railroads--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 456 p. : ill., plates, maps ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- American railway
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1889.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by T.M. Cooley
- The building of a railway / by T.C. Clarke. [June 1888]
- Feats of railway engineering / by J. Bogart. [July 1888]
- American locomotives and cars / by M.N. Forney. [August 1888]
- Railway management / by E.P. Alexander. [January 1889]
- Safety in railroad travel / by H.G. Prout. [Sept. 1889]
- Railway passenger travel / by H. Porter. [Sept. 1888]
- The freight-car service / by T. Voorhees. [May 1889]
- How to feed a railway / by B. Norton. [August 1889]
- The railway mail service / by T.L. James. [March 1889]
- The railway in its business relations / by A.T. Hadley. [Oct. 1888]
- The prevention of railway strikes / by C.F. Adams. [April 1889]
- The every-day life of railroad men / by B.B. Adams, jr. [Nov. 1888]
- Statistical railway studies / by F.W. Hewes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes illustrations by A. B. Frost.
- Reprinted from Scribner's magazine.
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