By Logan G. McPherson, Lecturer on Transportation at Johns Hopkins. 12mo. $1.50 net; By mail $1.63.
“Simply and lucidly tells what a railroad company is, what it does, and how it does it. Cannot fail to be of use to the voter. Of exceeding value to the young and ambitious in railroad service.”—The Travelers’ Official Railway Guide.
“The most important contribution to its branch of the subject that has yet been made.”—The Dial.
“The author’s connection with practical service gives this a value which no other book quite equals. Up-to-date, informing, ... an excellent piece of work.”—Wall street Journal.
Carter’s When Railroads Were New
By Charles Frederick Carter, with an Introductory Note by Logan G. McPherson. 16 full-page illustrations, 8vo, 312 pp. $2.00 net, by mail $2.16.
A history of the every-day difficulties, discouragements and triumphs of the pioneers who built and ran the early railroads. With many anecdotes that add to the abundant human interest.
“Full of interest. Besides the general chapter on the beginnings, it gives the early history of the Erie, the Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore and Ohio, of the Vanderbuilt lines, the first Pacific railroad, and of the Canadian Pacific. Very readable.”—N. Y. Sun.
“Invaluable. It gathers the floating fragments of railroad history, weaving a human interest into a coherent record of every day trials and triumphs. A human and personal document, not a dry historical treatise or a batch of anecdotes.”—Baltimore Sun.
“No book of adventure contains more exciting episodes or more varied interest. Every page is of live interest. So replete with curious information, thoroughly entertaining and instructive.”—Brooklyn Eagle.