Slason Thompson epub The Railway Library (Classic Reprint)

Jy TT Hreception accorded to the initial volume of The Railway Library for 1909 is the best warrant for the publication of its successor along the same lines. The object of the series, as it may now be safely called, is to preserve in more permanent and accessible form information of current interest regarding the railway problems liable to be lost in the exhaustless stream of newspaper, periodical and pamphlet publicity in the headlines today, scattered in yesterdays wastebaskets tomorrow. Following the precedent of 1909, the Library of 1910 opens with a retrospect of American railways condensed from the sketch of the rise and progress of the Eailways of the United States written by Mr. Henry V. Poor, for volume one of Poor s Manual for 1868-1869. Mr. Poor was then looking back over the first half of the history of railways on this continent. Looking forward, optimist though he was, his imagination did not quite comprehend the amazing development of the second period of two score years just ended. Supplementing Mr. Poor ssketch, in a way, is a brief account of the 75th anniversary of the first railway in Germany. Singular to relate, this railway was never extended beyond its projected three and three-quarter miles from Numberg to Furth, and is still an independently operated railway. With these for an historical background, the remaining papers of this issue seek to present the varied aspects of the railway situation in the United States today as reflected in the utterances of men closely identified with what they are writing or talking about. Easily of first importance in the railway history of 1910 is the finding of ex-J udge Otis, special Master in Chancery in the Minnesota Eate Case, adopted and confirmed by Judge Sanborn in A pril, 1911.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, su