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

Winter still reigned in that locality, and the car was promptly unloaded, and returned to St. Paul, where it was loaded with wheat consigned to New York. It left St. Paul on the...

This was not all. The same economy which resulted from the union of road and rolling-stock under one management was still further subserved by the consolidation of connecting li...

The credit of suggesting the first step toward the present system has generally been given to Colonel G. B. Armstrong, who in 1864 was Assistant Postmaster at Chicago. This is i...

It would be an interesting study, were there space, to follow the possible and proper combinations of movements to pass trains over the various tracks. It will be seen that, by...

Another feature which often involves discomfort, and occasionally positive suffering and danger, is "going back to flag." When a train is unexpectedly stopped upon the road, the...

A suspension bridge would solve the problem, but in many cases not satisfactorily. The method adopted by Colonel C. Shaler Smith at the Kentucky River Bridge [p. 55] shows ingen...

The second method of remedying the existing evils of car service is in a uniform and regular charge for demurrage, or car rental, to be collected by all railroad companies with...

The works are then let, either to one large contractor or to several smaller ones, and the labor of construction begins. The duties of the engineers are to stake out the work fo...

The _theory_ of the use of foreign cars is that they are permitted to run through to destination with through freight, on condition that they shall be promptly unloaded on arriv...

The means of warning passengers against standing on the platform were characteristic of the dangers which threatened, and were often ingenious in the devices for attracting atte...

Every man in the land is interested daily and constantly in railroads and the transportation of persons and property over them. The price of whatever he eats, or wears, or uses,...

In the same year that Peter Cooper built his engine, the South Carolina Railway Company had a locomotive, called the "Best Friend," built at the West Point Foundry for its line....

But all these things, while they increased the efficiency of the service, also increased the power of the railroad authorities and rendered the shipper more helpless. The very c...

Some of the early English engineers, not appreciating this, endeavored to lay down solid stone walls coped with stone cut to a smooth surface, on which they laid their rails. Th...

Of all accidents to employees the most numerous are those which arise in coupling and uncoupling cars. In Massachusetts, in 1888, the employees killed and injured were 391; of t...

[Table--Part 4 of 4] --+----+------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+---------+ | M'ls run to one.| COST PER MILE RUN FOR. | | +-----------------+----------------...

The general diagram which is given on pages 196-97 shows all of the principal parts as applied to a locomotive, a tender, and a passenger car. The diagram is reduced from one pr...

But it is futile to suppose that such a service as that outlined could be organized, in America at least, unless those concerned in it were allowed a voice in its management. Pr...

The removal of rock, or any large mass, from the caisson is effected through the air-chamber; but the removal of finer material, as sand or earth, is accomplished by the sand pu...

[28] In 1886 the capital stock and the indebtedness of the railroads of the United States amounted to about four thousand million dollars each. Most of the debt represents money...

It is quite natural that the engineers, or "runners," as they generally call themselves, who have the care of locomotives should take a deep interest in and acquire a sort of at...

The Oroya and the Chimbote railways in South America demanded constant locations of this character. At many points it was necessary to suspend the persons making the preliminary...

Still, the average distance passengers ride is important; for, if the number of passengers remains the same and their ride is shorter, the receipts are diminished. The returns s...

The freight engineman's every-day thoughts are largely about the care of his engine and the perplexities incident to getting out of it the maximum amount of work with the minimu...

It is not economy to allow anything to be out of repair, on the supposition that it is less expensive than it would be to spend comparatively little from day to day to keep it u...

From Syracuse to Cleveland there are several distributing points where mail matter is also received on the train, and the routine is continued much as already described until th...

[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.

It is plain that, by moving the upper end of the reverse lever, the link _a b_ can be raised up or lowered at will. When the link is down, or in the position represented in the...

Let A B and B C be two railroads connecting at B. Let the local rates A to B be 10 cents per 100 lbs. on grain, and B to C also 10 cents. Let the through rate A to C be 18, sinc...

PRESIDENT | +------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | _Secretary and Treasurer_ _General Manager_ _General_ | _Counsel_ ------------------------------------+--...

The earlier method, of allowing each passenger to pick out his own baggage at his point of destination and carry it off, resulted in a lack of accountability which led to much c...

The switch-tender, whose momentary carelessness has many a time caused terrible disaster, but whose constant faithfulness outweighs a million-fold even that painful record, is o...

The railroads of the United States, now aggregating a hundred and fifty thousand miles and having several hundred different managements, are frequently spoken of comprehensively...

THOMAS CURTIS CLARKE JOHN BOGART M. N. FORNEY E. P. ALEXANDER H. G. PROUT HORACE PORTER THEODORE VOORHEES BENJAMIN NORTON ARTHUR T. HADLEY THOMAS L. JAMES CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS...

Locomotives, ability to climb grades, 8 American type, origin of, 109 Baltimore & Ohio "grasshopper," 106 boiler construction, 115 cab, what is in it, 131 capacity to draw loads...

+----+--------+-------+ |Rank| State | Miles | +----+--------+-------+ | 41 | Dak. | 65 |» | 40 | R.I. | 136 |» | 39 | Colo. | 157 |»» | 38 | Oreg. | 159 |»» | 37 | Del. | 197 |...