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The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances — Thomas Curtis Clarke

The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances

Thomas Curtis Clarke

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 389 pages

The American Railway is an 1889 collection of essays by Thomas Curtis Clarke and other engineers and administrators on the building, development, management and equipment of American railroads. It explains how lines were surveyed, bridges and tracks built, and trains operated, offering a vivid portrait of the railway age. It offers a detailed view of nineteenth-century engineering and industrial organization.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE AMERICAN RAILWAY
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. THE BUILDING OF A RAILWAY.
  6. FEATS OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING.
  7. AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS.
  8. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.
  9. SAFETY IN RAILROAD TRAVEL
  10. RAILWAY PASSENGER TRAVEL.
  11. THE FREIGHT-CAR SERVICE.
  12. HOW TO FEED A RAILWAY.
  13. THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
  14. THE RAILWAY IN ITS BUSINESS RELATIONS.
  15. THE PREVENTION OF RAILWAY STRIKES. [31]
  16. THE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF RAILROAD MEN.
  17. STATISTICAL RAILWAY STUDIES.[37]
  18. INDEX.
  19. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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