xiv, 324 pp. Six pages of publisher ads follow text. Olive cloth boards with gilt title and gilt decor of steam engine on front board. Includes frontispiece. Illustrated with plates. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Dawn of the Railroad Era; America's Pioneer Railroad; Early Days on the Erie; Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad; Genesis of the Vanderbilt System; Incubator Railroads; The First Transcontinental Railroad; Through Tribulation by Rail; Romance of a Great Railroad; Index.
