The Modern Railroad

Ready for the day’s run
THE MODERN RAILROAD
BY EDWARD HUNGERFORD AUTHOR OF “LITTLE CORKY,” “THE MAN WHO STOLE A RAILROAD,” ETC.
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1911
Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1911
Published November, 1911 Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London, England
PRESS OF THE VAIL COMPANY COSHOCTON, U. S. A.
TO MY FATHER IN RECOGNITION OF HIS INTEREST AND APPRECIATION THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

To bring to the great lay mind some slight idea of the intricacy and the involved detail of railroad operation is the purpose of this book. Of the intricacies and involved details of railroad finance and railroad politics; of the quarrels between the railroads, the organizations of their employees, the governmental commissions, or the shippers, it says little or nothing. These difficult and pertinent questions have been and still are being competently discussed by other writers.