COMPILED AND EDITED BY
SLASON THOMPSON
Manager of the Bureau of Railway News
and Statistics
Chicago
Chicago
The Gunthorp-Warren Printing Co
1910
[TABLE OF CONTENTS]
| Page | ||
| Introduction | [3] | |
| Pre-Railway Era in America | [5] | |
| By F. A. Cleveland and F. W. Powell. | ||
| First Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company | [21] | |
| By J. Edgar Thomson. | ||
| Railways and the Pacific Northwest | [45] | |
| By James J. Hill. | ||
| Southern Railways and their needs | [58] | |
| By John F. Wallace. | ||
| Problems Confronting American Railways | [66] | |
| By Daniel Willard. | ||
| The Railroad Situation of To-day | [80] | |
| By Frank Trumbull. | ||
| Transportation Charge and Prices | [90] | |
| By Logan G. McPherson. | ||
| The Freight Rate Primer | [107] | |
| Issued by the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. | ||
| Progressive Safety in Railway Operation | [116] | |
| By A. H. Smith. | ||
| Railway Mail Pay | [142] | |
| By Julius Kruttschnitt. | ||
| The Diminished Purchasing Power of Railway Earnings | [165] | |
| By C. C. McCain. | ||
| The Railroads and Public Approval | [199] | |
| By Edward P. Ripley. | ||
| Railroads and the Public | [205] | |
| By John C. Spooner. | ||
| Railroad Problems of To-day | [211] | |
| By J. B. Thayer. | ||
| The Relation of the Railroads to the State | [220] | |
| By W. M. Acworth, M. A. | ||
| Railway Nationalization | [238] | |
| By Sir George S. Gibb. | ||
| Concerning Advances in Railway Rates | [261] | |
| By the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1909. | ||
| Statistics of American Railways for 1909 | [291] | |
| By Slason Thompson. | ||
| I | Mileage in 1909 | [306] |
| II | Equipment | [314] |
| III | Employes and their Compensation | [321] |
| IV | Capitalization | [337] |
| V | Cost of Construction | [342] |
| VI | Ownership of American Railways | [345] |
| VII | Public Service of the Railways | [346] |
| VIII | Earnings and Expenses | [358] |
| IX | Taxes | [363] |
| X | Damages and Injuries to Persons | [365] |
| XI | Locomotive Fuel | [367] |
| XII | The Safety of American Railways | [368] |
| XIII | Railway Receiverships in 1909 | [384] |
| XIV | Cost of Railway Regulation | [385] |
| XV | Statistics of Foreign Railways | [386] |
| XVI | Growth of Railways | [391] |
| Recommendations | [393] | |
| Index | [395] | |