The Railway Library, 1909 / A Collection of Noteworthy Chapters, Addresses, and Papers Relating to Railways, Mostly Published During the Year

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Fractions have been left in the form a/b except for ¼ ½ ¾. A dozen or so occurrences of 'nn a-b' have been changed to 'nn-a/b', mainly on pages 27-40, for consistency.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
A COLLECTION OF NOTEWORTHY CHAPTERS, ADDRESSES AND PAPERS RELATING TO RAILWAYS, MOSTLY PUBLISHED DURING THE YEAR.
COMPILED AND EDITED BY
SLASON THOMPSON
Manager of the Bureau of Railway News and Statistics Chicago
Chicago
The Gunthorp-Warren Printing Co 1910


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.