American, 23
connected by a bridge, 55
difficulties of construction, 62
great, 62
how avoided, 23
located by triangulation, 53
Mont Cenis, 63
St. Gothard, 63
Underground Railway, London, 97
Union Pacific Railway system, extent of, 370
Vacuum-brake, 193, 195
Vail, Theodore N., 317, 322
Valleys, how crossed by a railway, 49
Valve-motion arrangements, 118
Vanderbilt business methods, 351
Vanderbilt, Commodore, 318, 340
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 350, 424
Vanderbilt, William H., 318, 340
Verrugas Viaduct, 55
Vestibule train, luxury of, 248
as a safety device, 224
Viaducts, American metal, 79
Victoria Bridge, 80
Waddell, A., 323
Wagner Palace Car Company, 242
Wagon cars, 290
War, the late, effect of, on railway growth, 348
Washington Bridge over the Harlem River, 77, 94
Waste and saving in supplies, 302
Water-jet method of sinking piles, 68
Watt, James, 1
Way-bill and its theory, 181
Westinghouse air-brake, 195, 196
Westinghouse, George, Jr., 200, 237
West Point Foundry as a locomotive shop, 104
Whipple, Squire, 28
Winans, Ross, 7, 108
Yardmaster's duties, 283
Young Men's Christian Association, Railway Department, 424
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
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A superscript is denoted by ^x for example 12^1.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ¼ ¾; other fraction are shown in
the form a/b as 1/117 or 39-2/10 for example.
A large dense table spanning two pages in the original book (page 158
and 159) has been split into 4 parts, with column #1 (engine number)
being repeated in each part. The vertical column headings have been
replaced by a key, A B etc, with an explanation of the keys at the
beginning of each part. Some cell values were unclear in the scanned
image and a best guess of the digit has been made.
Another large table at page 447 has been split into 2 parts.
In several tables with dollar.cent values the decimal point is faint
or missing. For consistency the decimal point has been inserted in
all cases.
Footnote #31 had no anchor; this has been added in the chapter title.
Nine consecutive full-page illustrations placed after page 428
have detailed maps and Gantt charts and many have large amounts of
text on them. Most of this text, and the Gantt chart information,
have been copied and placed under the illustration as part of the
caption.
In the organization chart on page 185, it is very likely that the
Train Master and the Station Agents were all intended to report
to the Superintendant of Transportation. The missing connecting
line has been inserted using a dotted line to indicate this
insertion.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example,
untravelled; sirup; smouldering; box car, box-car; cast iron,
cast-iron.
Pg 42, 'from 1 to 10' replaced by 'from 0 to 10'.
Pg 114, 'have ournal-boxes' replaced by 'have journal-boxes'.
Pg 392, 'no one brakeman' replaced by 'not one brakeman'.
Pg 416, 'fusilade' replaced by 'fusillade'.