Title: Three papers on rail-roads. 1. Rail road to New Orleans for transporting the mail. 2. Timber rail-ways--economical plan. 3. General remarks on rail-roads.
Authors: Mills, Robert, 1781-1855; Long, Stephen H. 1784-1864.; Long, Stephen H. 1784-1864.
Year: 1827
Subjects: Railroads Early works to 1850; Monorail railroads.; Railroads, Wooden.
Contents: Abstract of a plan of a rail-road, peculiarly adapted to facilitate the operations of the mail, with an estimate of the cost of one between the city of Washington and the city of New Orleans, in a letter from Robert Mills ... to the post master general of the United States.--Timber rail-ways [by Robert Mills]--Letter from Lieut. Col. S.H. Long ... to Philip E. Thomas, esquire.