The Romance of Modern Locomotion - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Archibald Williams,
1 / 25Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Midland Railway
- 3. The Great Western Railway; or, The Struggles of the Gauges
- 4. The Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Great Canadian Highway
- 5. What the Canadian Pacific Railway has Done for Canada
- 6. The Union Pacific Railway: The First of the Transcontinentals
- 7. The Highroad to Orange Land - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- 8. Some Further Facts About American Railways
- 9. The Railroad as Conqueror
- 10. Mountain Railways
- 11. Fighting the Snow
- 12. How Life is Protected
- 13. How Life is Protected, continued
- 14. Accidents and the Breakdown Train
- 15. Indian Railways
- 16. The Railway Surveyor and Engineer
- 17. The Development of the Locomotive
- 18. The Cradle of a Locomotive
- 19. What the Expresses Can Do
- 20. The Railway in War
- 21. The Electric Railway
- 22. The Railway Mania
- 23. The Grain Elevator, the Railway, and the World's Food Supply
- 24. Adventures on the Line
- 25. Ocean Ferries
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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.
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