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Railroads and Rivers American Cavalcade Series Story of inland transportation
Railroads and Rivers American Cavalcade Series Story of inland transportation By William Clark
Hard Cover NOTICE the library rules inside front cover, name/sticker and removal of ? on first page.
Copyright 1939 FIRST impression
334 Pages Indexed
Illustrated by photographs and old prints. Maps redrawn from early originals.
CONTENTS
Part I
Early Days, 1600-1850
I. A Land Without Wheels, 1600-1700 3
Ii. Roads Triumph Over The Alleghanys, 1700-1850 16
Iii. Waterways Flourish Wondrously, 1776-1850 35
Part Ii
The Continent United, 1830-1900
Iv. The Coming Of Steam And Steel 59
V. The First Ten Years Of Railroading, 1830-1840 71
Vi. Over The Alleghany Mountains, 18401850 102
Vii. Development Of The Mississippi Valley, 1850-1861 126
Viii. The War Booms The Rails But Ruins The River Boats, 1861-1865 160
Ix. The Oceans United By Steel, 1862-1869 . 177
X. Other Great Railroads And Great Railroad Men, 1860-1900 202
Part Iii
Modern Days, 1900-
Xi. Edward H. Harriman 243
Xii. Modern Equipment Developed 258
Xiii. World War Worries 273
Xiv. Regulation 281
Xv. The Present And The Future 288
Appendices
Chronology Of Inland Transportation Development 315
Bibliography 321
Index 325
List Of Illustrations
Transportation Rivals In The 1830's Frontispiece
An Early Mail Stage Poster 26
The Start At Dawn 32
A Conestoga Wagon 33
The Lancaster Pike In 1795 33
Street Scene In Helena, Montana In 1865 40
Passenger Packet Boat On Erie Canal In 1820 41
Past And Present In Transportation 41
The Flatboat 50
Steamboat New Orleans 51
Present Day Transportation In The Mohawk Valley 51
An Early Horse Drawn Railroad Car 62
The Rocket, 1830 63
Before Steam Conquered The Rails78
An Early Southern Depot 82
The Mississippi 83
Race Of The Tom Thumb 86
The Tom Thumb 86
The Atlas 87
The Dewitt Clinton 98
The John Bull 99
Early Propaganda 102
Old Southern Route 118
An Early Illinois Central Train 128
First Train Over The Alleghany Mountains, 1852 128
Types Of Rails 129
The William Mason 129
Mississippi River Steamboats 156
"Trying To Beat The Record Of The Robert E. Lee" 157
The General 168
New Orleans Harbor Around 1850 169
The Jm White 169
Government Engineers On Inspection Tour 178
Joining Of The Rails At Promontory Point, Utah, 1869 178
Construction Camp Of Central Pacific 179
Building The Union Pacific In Nebraska 192
Central Pacific Construction Gang192
Railroad Construction In 1877 198
A Famous Locomotive, Number 999 220
A Passenger Train Of 1887 220
Locomotive Of 1901 220
Modern Railroad Terminal Yards 221
The Silver Meteor 260
Two Powerful New Steam Locomotives 261
A Present Day Electric Locomotive 261
The Sky Chief 300
City Of San Francisco 300
Modern Passenger Bus 301
How Freight Travels The Highways 301
List Of Maps
Highways And Pioneer Roads Of Early Days 22
Railroads In New England In 1840 And 1850 92
Railroads East Of The Mississippi In 1850 106
Railroads In The South In 1850 And 1854 114
Railroads In The Middle Atlantic And Midwestern States In 1850 And 1854 142
Principal Transcontinental Railroads Of Today 246
OF ALL the various problems which have played their part in the tremendous drama of the development of the United States, none have been or are of greater importance than those of transportation. This is true when our nation is considered both as itself and as a part of the commonwealth of countries comprising the civilized world. What we are today nationally, is to a large degree the result of our success in solving our original problem of transportation, and our future is, beyond question, similarly dependent upon our solution of present-day questions.
Historically, it is convenient to divide the story of transportation in America into two parts-maritime and inland.
American maritime transportation activities began, of course, long before America came into being as a nation, for, essentially, the establishment of European colonies in the New World was the problem of transporting settlers across three thousand miles of very stormy salt water. Even when this was accomplished transportation still remained the vital necessity, for the narrow lines of settlements, strung along a thousand miles of coastal plain, backed by a wilderness about which the only certain thing was that it was filled with hostile Savages were utterly dependent upon the Mother Countries not only for economic support but also protection against each other; for the French Colonies in the North, the Spanish Colonies in the South and the English Colonies wedged between, were all three certain that America was large enough for but one of them.
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