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The Railway Library, 1909
A Collection of Noteworthy Chapters, Addresses, and Papers Relating to Railways, Mostly Published During the Year
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066183622
Table of Contents
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of The Chief Engineer of the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY
RAILWAYS AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
SOUTHERN RAILWAYS AND THEIR NEEDS
PROBLEMS CONFRONTING AMERICAN RAILWAYS
THE RAILROAD SITUATION OF TODAY
TRANSPORTATION CHARGE AND PRICES
PROGRESSIVE SAFETY IN RAILWAY OPERATION
THE DIMINISHED PURCHASING POWER OF RAILWAY EARNINGS
THE RAILROADS AND PUBLIC APPROVAL
THE RELATION OF RAILROADS TO THE STATE.
CONCERNING ADVANCES IN RAILWAY RATES
STATISTICS OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS
III EMPLOYES AND THEIR COMPENSATION
VI OWNERSHIP OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS
VII PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE RAILWAYS
X DAMAGES AND INJURIES TO PERSONS
XII THE SAFETY OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS
XIII RAILWAY RECEIVERSHIPS IN 1909
XIV COST OF RAILWAY REGULATION
XV STATISTICS OF FOREIGN RAILWAYS
INTRODUCTION
In the following pages is presented a number of the more timely papers and addresses of the year 1909 on the present railway situation, together with chapters from two books of current interest on the same subject. As the object of the compilation has been to present in permanent and accessible form information in regard to American railways worthy of more than the ephemeral life of newspaper or pamphlet publication, it has been thought well to accompany the messages of today with a brief glance at the conditions on this continent before the days of railways. Happily for this purpose the first two chapters of Messrs. Cleveland and Powell's "Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States," fresh from the press, afforded the very background needed, and the first report of the engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad provided the glasses through which the reader can look forward from the small beginnings to what is now known as the greatest railway system on the globe.
