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| “In summer the brakemen have pleasant enough times of railroading” |
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| A famous cantilever rapidly disappearing—the substitution of a new Kentucky river bridge for the old, on the Queen & Crescent system |
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| Triple-phase, alternating current locomotive built by the General Electric Co. for use in the Cascade Tunnel, of the Great Northern Railway |
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| Heavy service, alternating and direct current freight locomotive built by the Westinghouse Company for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad |
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| The monoroad in practical use for carrying passengers at City Island, New York |
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| The cigar-shaped car of the monoroad |
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| A modern railroad freight and passenger terminal: the terminal of the West Shore Railroad at Weehawken, opposite New York City |
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| High-speed, direct-current passenger locomotive built by the General Electric Company for terminal service of the New York Central at the Grand Central Station |
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| This is what New York Central McCrea did for the men of the Canadian Pacific up at Kenora |
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| A clubhouse built by the Southern Pacific for its men at Roseville, California |
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| The B. & O. boys enjoying the Railroad Y. M. C. A., Chicago Junction |
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| “The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has organized a brass band for its employees” |
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| A high-speed electric locomotive on the Pennsylvania bringing a through train out of the tunnel underneath the Hudson River and into the New York City terminal |
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| High-speed, direct-current locomotive built by the Westinghouse Company for the terminal service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in New York |
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| Two triple-phase locomotives of the Great Northern Railway helping a double-header steam train up the grade into the Cascade Tunnel |
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| The outer shell of the New Haven’s freight locomotive removed, showing the working parts of the machine |
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The railroad is a monster. His feet are dipped into the navigable seas, and his many arms reach into the uplands. His fingers clutch the treasures of the hills—coal, iron, timber—all the wealth of Mother Earth. His busy hands touch the broad prairies of corn, wheat, fruits—the yearly produce of the land. With ceaseless activity he brings the raw material that it may be made into the finished. He centralizes industry. He fills the ships that sail the seas. He brings the remote town in quick touch with the busy city. He stimulates life. He makes life.
His arms stretch through the towns and over the land. His steel muscles reach across great rivers and deep valleys, his tireless hands have long since burrowed their way through God’s eternal hills. He is here, there, everywhere. His great life is part and parcel of the great life of the nation.
He reaches an arm into an unknown country, and it is known! Great tracts of land that were untraversed become farms; hillsides yield up their mineral treasure; a busy town springs into life where there was no habitation of man a little time before, and the town becomes a city. Commerce is born. The railroad bids death and stagnation begone. It creates. It reaches forth with its life, and life is born.
The railroad is life itself!
THE MODERN RAILROAD
CHAPTER I
THE RAILROADS AND THEIR BEGINNINGS
