[Rarebooks] FS: 1892 American Railroad Survey

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The American Railway. Its Construction, Development, Management,
and Appliances”

By Thomas M. Cooley, et al.
Published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1892.

DISCUSSION: A comprehensive study of American railroading at the end of
the 19th century, with chapters by a variety of industry experts
concerning the building of a railway, feats of railway engineering,
American locomotives and railway cars, railway management, safety in
railroad travel, railway passenger travel, freight-car service,
necessities of the modern railway, railway mail service, railway business
relations, prevention of railway strikes, everyday life of a railroad man,
and statistical railroad studies.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 7”x9.75”, xviii + 456 pages, line illustrations.
Bound in plain brown cloth with a black spine label.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor cover soil, rear hinge just a bit loose, name
crossed off front pastedown, several minor old tape repairs to several
page edges.

PRICE: $65.00

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