| Title. | Designer. | Page |
| The Last Span (Frontispiece) | A. B. Frost | [v] |
| Alpine Pass. Avoidance of a Tunnel | From a photograph | [5] |
| Big Loop, Georgetown Branch of the Union Pacific, Colorado | From a photograph | [11] |
| Snow-sheds, Selkirk Mountains, Canadian Pacific | J. D. Woodward | [19] |
| Rail Making | Walter Shirlaw | [39] |
| Loop and Great Trestle near Hagerman's, on the Colorado Midland Railway | J. D. Woodward | [51] |
| Portal of a Tunnel in Process of Construction | Otto Stark | [65] |
| At Work in a Pneumatic Caisson—Fifty Feet below the Surface of the Water | Walter Shirlaw | [73] |
| Below the Brooklyn Bridge | J. H. Twachtman | [83] |
| The St. Louis Bridge during Construction | M. E. Sands & R. Blum | [95] |
| A Typical American Passenger Locomotive | From a photograph | [111] |
| Interior of a Round-house | M. J. Burns | [130] |
| View in Locomotive Erecting Shop | J. D. Woodward & R. Blum | [135] |
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Diagram Used in Making Railway Time-Tables | | [161] |
| The General Despatcher | M. J. Burns | [165] |
| Mantua Junction, West Philadelphia, showing a Complex System of Interlacing Tracks | W. C. Fitler | [169] |
| Danger Ahead! | A. B. Frost | [189] |
| Interlocking Apparatus for Operating Switches and Signals by Compressed Air, Pittsburg Yards, Pennsylvania Railroad | From a photograph | [211] |
| Pullman Vestibuled Cars | From a photograph | [247] |
| In a Baggage-room | W. C. Broughton | [255] |
| "Show Your Tickets!" | Walter Shirlaw | [261] |
| Freight Yards of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, West Sixty-fifth Street, New York | W. C. Fitler | [285] |
| Freight from all Quarters—Some Typical Trains | W. C. Fitler | [291] |
| At a Way-station—The Postmaster's Assistant | Herbert Denman | [321] |
| Transfer of Mail at the Grand Central Station, New York | Herbert Denman | [327] |
| Sorting Letters in Car No. 1—The Fast Mail | Herbert Denman | [333] |
| A Breakdown on the Road | A. B. Frost | [405] |
| In the Waiting Room of a Country Station | A. B. Frost | [413] |
| The Trials of a Baggage-master | A. B. Frost | [417] |