The science of railways.
By: By Marshall M. Kirkman ... The whole profusely embellished and illustrated by engravings, prepared expressly for this work ...
Edition: [Rev. and enl. ed.]
Publisher: The World Railway Publishing Company
Published: 1902
Place of publication: New York; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Railroads; Transportation -- History
Table of contents: title: I. Railway equipment.; title: II. Railway organization.; title: III. Financing constructing and maintaining.; title: IV. Train service.; title: V. Passenger, baggage, express and mail service.; title: VI. Freight business and affairs.; title: VII. Disbursements of railways.; title: VIII. Economic theory of rates. Private versus government control of railroads.; title: IX. Fiscal affairs. Collection of revenue.; title: X. General fiscal and other affairs.; title: XI. Origin and evolution of transportation, or The genesis of railway carriage.; title: XII. Engineers' and firemen's manual. General index.