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Trains by Robert Henry DJ Copyright 1934 with dust jacket
Trains by Robert Selph Henry
Hard Cover with dust jacket (dust jacket has damage)
Copyright 1934
110 pages
The sweep of rails across the continent is the greatest of all American stories, a romance the more romantic because it is reality. Mr Henry tells it with a knowledge of the facts so complete he can make it simple and with full appreciation of the romance - the thrills and glamour of the pioneer days, with many an anecdote, the achievements of the present, the wonders of the future.
How steam was harnessed - all about the locomotive, the development of engines suitable for travel over our vast distances, to pull steep grades and get around sharp curves, the evolution of types - how a train is held together, how it starts and stops and how cars are kept from bumping into each other - how tack is laid and road bed cared for - how standard time and schedules and the dispatching system came about.
Here is the whole magnificent and fascinating epic from the time horses pulled coaches to the present day when splendid trains of Pullmans whisk us in luxury, to the miracle trains of tomorrow.
I RAILS AND STEAM.3
II AMERICAN BEGINNINGS. . . .6
III THE IRON HORSE PROVES ITSELF . .. 10
IV LEARNING HOW BY DOING . . . 14
V TO THE "WESTERN WATERS" . .. . 21
VI ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI.27
VII THE TRANSCONTINENTAL DREAM . . .. 38
VIII THE FIRST RAILROAD WAR . . . 44
IX "ONE, TWO, THREE-DONE!". . .52
X PUTTING ON BRAKES. . . . . . .57
XI BIGGER TRAINS-AND BETTER . . . .61
XII TRANSPORTATION NATION-WIDE . . . . .73
XIII COMPETITION AND REGULATION . . . . . 81
XIV TO-DAY'S ACHIEVEMENT . . . . .84
XV THE PROMISE FULFILLED . . . . . 97
XVI IN WAR AS IN PEACE .. .107
XVII POSTWAR PROGRESS. . . . 117
APPENDIX: FREIGHT CAR INITIALS . . . 134
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