Romance of Modern Locomotion
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116
1904
English
- Introduction
- The Midland Railway
- The Great Western Railway; or, The Struggles of the Gauges
- The Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Great Canadian Highway
- What the Canadian Pacific Railway has Done for Canada
- The Union Pacific Railway: The First of the Transcontinentals
- The Highroad to Orange Land - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- Some Further Facts About American Railways
- The Railroad as Conqueror
- Mountain Railways
- Fighting the Snow
- How Life is Protected
- How Life is Protected, continued
- Accidents and the Breakdown Train
- Indian Railways
- The Railway Surveyor and Engineer
- The Development of the Locomotive
- The Cradle of a Locomotive
- What the Expresses Can Do
- The Railway in War
- The Electric Railway
- The Railway Mania
- The Grain Elevator, the Railway, and the World's Food Supply
- Adventures on the Line
- Ocean Ferries
In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the various forms of traction, signals, and other mechanical appliances connected with the working of a railway; notice the effects of railway communication on a country for its peaceful development, or its conquest in war; and make the tour of a typical locomotive factory. These and other matters have been treated as simply as may be, but with sufficient fullness to give the reader a fair idea of what the railway really is, how it has been made, and what the future may have in store for it. - Summary by from the preface.
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