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Cavalcade Of The Rails By Frank Morse Hard Cover Ex-Library Book
Cavalcade Of The Rails By Frank Morse
Hard Cover Ex-Library Book Inside front cover, first page, title page Contents pages are the pages I saw withe stamps or writing..
Copyright 1940 Second printing 1940
370 Pages Indexed
Contents
Introduction: The Romance Of The Right-Of-Way9
I The Lions First And Last Roar21
Ii A Steam Shadow Cast By Coming Events32
Iii Rails Rise Over The Mountains49
Iv Whistles Follow The War Whoop65
V Tiny Acorns That Became Great Oaks 78
Vi This Is The Road The Bride Built89
Vii The Birth Of The Train Dispatcher102
Viii The Scarlet Woman Of Wall Street 117
Ix Blessed Events That Followed The Wedding Of Rivers 131
X Down The Old Santa Fe Trail147
Xi Where The Sioux And The Buffalo Played160
Xii Rail Drama In Dutch Flat173
Xiii "Drill, You Terriers, Drill!"182
Xiv Baby Bonds And A Blind Pool197
Xv "And They Laid Jesse James In His Grave"215
Xvi The Road That Followed The Pigs Eye Dog-Team230
Xvii Rail Barons Meet Their Master244
Xviii The West Calls For A Hand263
Xix The Man Who Built His Own Empire 282
Xx A Ghost Dance On The Stock Exchange 296
Xxi Watch Those Drivers Roll307
XXII OPEN THROTTLES AND RED LIGHTS321
XXIII WHISKERS ON THE RAILS337
Index353
ILLUSTRATIONS
This heavy freight train on the Norfolk & Western offers a picturesque contrast to the covered wagons Frontispiece
Horse power via a treadmill and sails for rails16
The birth of the Baltimore & Ohio on July 4, 182817
The belt slipped and the horse pulled ahead32
A reproduction (above) of the double-decked coaches used by the Baltimore & Ohio in 183o and (below) the Tom Thumb 33
(Above) A reproduction of "The Best Friend of Charleston." (Below) Older than cross-ties48
A reproduction of the DeWitt Clinton pulling the first passenger train on the Mohawk & Hudson49
(Above) Half a boat onward. (Below) The "Portage Railroad"64
Yes, she's from Dixie. The "Mississippi," oldest existing locomotive in the South 65
(Above) The "Stourbridge Lion," (below) an artist's vision of Horatio Allen's history-making run 80
(Above) The Pony Express takes over the job at the end of the iron trail. (Below) Transcontinental rails followed trails worn deep by the creaking wheels of prairie schooners 81
The arrival of Central Pacific rails at Colfax, California, in 1865 doomed the old pioneer stage coach112
The first Pullman sleeping car113
Smoke-stacks shrink as speed spurts. (Above) The first passenger train on the old San Jose Railroad. (Below) The Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited 128
The advent of the dining car threw a monkey-wrench into the fried chicken and hot coffee industry of "Ole Virginny." 129
(Above) Their honorable ancestors built the Great Wall of China. (Below) A handicap to high speed144
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, in 1865145
Union and Central Pacific Locomotives touch noses160
East meets West. The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869161
President Lincoln's funeral train arriving in West Philadelphia192
The first train over Northern Pacific rails between St. Paul and Portland in 1883193
The New York Central's "999" setting a world's record of 112 miles an hour in 1893208
Ships on the famous old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal saluted the Baltimore & Ohio's first Capitol Limited209
The Evolution of the driver's perch. (Above) "The Pioneer," (below) the interior of a modern cab240
With and without the face-lift. A Pennsylvania locomotive (above) running two miles a minute and (below) the iron horse goes streamlined . 241
The old order stoppeth, yielding place to new256
(Above) The man who must always be right. (Below) The train conductor gives his engineer the "high ball" 257
Right to the second at the zero hour288
She takes the high road. The Southern Pacific's "City of San Francisco" crossing the last mountain divide289
Taking orders on the fly304
Just a question of time, he thinks, as he studies a giant locomotive305
Here is a sweeping story of gigantic personalities, of tremendous gambles. of construction and destruction which makes the history of railroading another example of truth which is stranger than fiction.
This dramatic tale of railroading is a romance to which all Americans will respond. The glamorous course of railroading is traced from its hazardous beginnings to streamlining, high and sustained speed, and automatic safety devices. The luxury of the Pullmans, skillfully routed over trackage of a dozen roads in a
single night for the convenience of the oblivious passengers; the variety of the freights, flats carrying heavy machinery, endless streams of gondolas from Pennsylvania coal mines, box cars distributing Michigan's automobiles and cattle cars from Texas; the fruit-laden reefers routed through a maze of passenger traffic to Northern markets-all of these contribute to the fascination of railroading.
In an easy-going, forthright style, Mr. Morse presents the whole pageant of transportation from the earliest trails of animals and savages through the water routes to the beginning of steam. Before transcontinental rails came other means of transportation - the Pony Express, the horse-drawn cars, wood-burning locomotives. For communication, the telegraph which was so humorously misunderstood by the Indians. These were the seeds of the great railroads which presaged the surge of the great amalgamations.
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