A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the article "Railways" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia britannica, with additional details

This book is about trains and all aspects of railroad operations in Britain rather than America, but is a useful guide to railroad operations as they were in the 1830s. Chapter headings are: -Preliminary observations – arrangements before commencing the works. -Preparation of working drawings, and specifications for contracts. -Mails, carriages, waggons, horse-boxes, etc. -Buildings at stations, and apparatus. -Duties of Engine-men, and necessary regulations along the line. -Description of engines, and methods of working them. -Annual expenses of railways. -Great western railway reports. -System of direction and management. -History of locomotive engines. -Explanation of the plates. -List of railways, when Act was passed, and amount of money raised, or authorized to be raised.