Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; or, Stories of the Locomotive in Every Land

xvi, 254 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Beginnings in Europe; The First American Railroads; The Banding of the Continent; The Locomotive in Slippers; A Mosaic of Travel; A Handful of Curiosities; Mountain Railways; The Vertical Railway; The Lightning Harnessed--Tramways; The Functions of the Railway in War; The Luxuries of Travel; The Locomotive and Its Master; The Track; The Train.