Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       PRE-RAILWAY ERA IN AMERICA

       FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of The Chief Engineer of the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY

       RAILWAYS AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

       SOUTHERN RAILWAYS AND THEIR NEEDS

       PROBLEMS CONFRONTING AMERICAN RAILWAYS

       THE RAILROAD SITUATION OF TODAY

       TRANSPORTATION CHARGE AND PRICES

       THE FREIGHT RATE PRIMER

       PROGRESSIVE SAFETY IN RAILWAY OPERATION

       RAILWAY MAIL PAY

       THE DIMINISHED PURCHASING POWER OF RAILWAY EARNINGS

       THE RAILROADS AND PUBLIC APPROVAL

       RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC

       RAILROAD PROBLEMS OF TODAY

       THE RELATION OF RAILROADS TO THE STATE.

       RAILWAY NATIONALIZATION

       CONCERNING ADVANCES IN RAILWAY RATES

       STATISTICS OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS

       I MILEAGE IN 1909

       II EQUIPMENT

       III EMPLOYES AND THEIR COMPENSATION

       IV CAPITALIZATION

       V COST OF CONSTRUCTION

       VI OWNERSHIP OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS

       VII PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE RAILWAYS

       VIII EARNINGS AND EXPENSES

       IX TAXES

       X DAMAGES AND INJURIES TO PERSONS

       XI LOCOMOTIVE FUEL

       XII THE SAFETY OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS

       XIII RAILWAY RECEIVERSHIPS IN 1909

       XIV COST OF RAILWAY REGULATION

       XV STATISTICS OF FOREIGN RAILWAYS

       XVI GROWTH OF RAILWAYS

       RECOMMENDATIONS

       INDEX

INTRODUCTION

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      In the following pages is presented a number of the more timely papers and addresses of the year 1909 on the present railway situation, together with chapters from two books of current interest on the same subject. As the object of the compilation has been to present in permanent and accessible form information in regard to American railways worthy of more than the ephemeral life of newspaper or pamphlet publication, it has been thought well to accompany the messages of today with a brief glance at the conditions on this continent before the days of railways. Happily for this purpose the first two chapters of Messrs. Cleveland and Powell's "Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States," fresh from the press, afforded the very background needed, and the first report of the engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad provided the glasses through which the reader can look forward from the small beginnings to what is now known as the greatest railway system on the globe.

      After this study of conditions as they were, and of the opportunities that invited the railway pioneers of 1848, it is instructive to read the utterances of the latest of our empire builders, whose foresight and indomitable will anticipated the development of our Pacific Northwest with railway facilities that already lag behind the necessities of its amazing growth.

      Of the other addresses and papers it is unnecessary to say more than that they reflect the prevailing sentiments of all thoughtful railway officials respecting conditions of the gravest import to the great industry upon which the entire fabric of our national prosperity and well-being depends. Only the shallowest student of our social, economic and political system can view the persistent attacks upon the American system of transportation without serious alarm for the results. This alarm is the prevailing note of these papers and it comes from men who are at the helm and who see the financial breakers upon which