Romance of Modern Locomotion
by Archibald Williams
About this book
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.
Chapters (24)
1The Midland Railway
2The Great Western Railway; or, The Struggles of the Gauges
3The Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Great Canadian Highway
4What the Canadian Pacific Railway has Done for Canada
5The Union Pacific Railway: The First of the Transcontinentals
6The Highroad to Orange Land - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
7Some Further Facts About American Railways
8The Railroad as Conqueror
9Mountain Railways
10Fighting the Snow
11How Life is Protected
12How Life is Protected, continued
13Accidents and the Breakdown Train
14Indian Railways
15The Railway Surveyor and Engineer
16The Development of the Locomotive
17The Cradle of a Locomotive
18What the Expresses Can Do
19The Railway in War
20The Electric Railway
21The Railway Mania
22The Grain Elevator, the Railway, and the World's Food Supply
23Adventures on the Line
24Ocean Ferries
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