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

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The volume presents a thorough illustrated survey of railroad engineering, equipment, and administration, tracing technological evolution and practical methods for locating, constructing, and maintaining lines. Chapters cover surveying and roadbed work, bridge and tunnel construction, track-laying and upkeep, locomotive and car design and mechanics, and large-scale engineering feats such as viaducts and cantilevers. It also examines organizational and legal aspects of railway management, staffing, operations, and safety practices, discusses construction under difficult conditions and underwater foundations, and highlights innovations and appliances that shaped operations, maintenance, and traffic interchange.

FOOTNOTES:

[9] An engraving of a team and of a "Conestoga" wagon—which was used in this traffic—taken from a photograph of one which has survived to the present day, is given opposite (Fig. 1).

[10] It was not really the first train, as the Baltimore & Ohio and the South Carolina roads were in operation earlier.

[11] The truck was first applied by Mr. Jervis to an engine built by R. Stephenson & Co., of England.

[12] It should be mentioned that this is not one of the most recent types of engines. The arrangement of parts in the cab has been somewhat simplified in later locomotives.

[13] This engine had two different appliances for oiling the cylinders, a pair of oil-cups, 20, 20, and an automatic oiler, 9.