The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Trains

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Looks at the American railroad industry in the 1880's and how it developed as the business boomed. This title presents detailed texts about how railroads were built, the types of railways, the various ways the railway affected political and business economics, as well as the safety precautions of people who rode or worked with the railway system.

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Thomas Curtis Clarke was one of the most widely known railway engineers in the mid to late 1800s, behind the construction of several bridges and elevated railroads of New York. Upon his death in 1901, he was considered by the New York Times as one of the best-known civil engineers in America.