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“Story of railroad beginnings in the United States, giving the genesis of the great lines and the development of the features that are now so familiar, and recalling the romance and vicissitudes of early railroad history.”
– – A.L.A.Catalog 1904-11
Chapter headings:
1. The Dawn of the Railroad Era
2. America’s Pioneer Railroad
3. Early Days on the Erie
4. Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad
5. Genesis of the Vanderbilt System
6. Incubator Railroads
7. The First Transcontinental Railroad
8. Through Tribulation by Rail
9. Romance of a Great Railroad
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