Steamship lines under railroad control--Fleet of New York Central--Tugs--Railroad connections at New York harbor--Handling of freight--Ferry-boats--Tunnel under Detroit River--Car-ferries and lake routes--Great Lakes steamship lines under railroad control.
The first organized branch of the Railroad Y. M. C. A.-- Cornelius Vanderbilt's gift of a club-house--Growth of the Railroad Y. M. C. A.--Plans by the railways to care for the sick and the crippled--The pension system--Entertainments--Model restaurants--Free legal advice--Employees' magazines--The Order of the Red Spot.
Electric street cars--Suburban cars--Electric third-rail from Utica to Syracuse--Some railroads partially adopt electric power--The benefit of electric power in tunnels--Also at terminal stations--Conditions which make electric traction practical and economical--Hopeful outlook for electric traction--The monorail and the gyroscope car, invented by Louis Brennan--A similar invention by August Scherl.
An early locomotive built by William Norris for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad 18
The historic "John Bull" of the Camden & Amboy Railroad--and its train 18
A heavy-grade type of locomotive built for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1864. Its flaring stack was typical of those years 19
Construction engineers blaze their way across the face of new country 38
The making of an embankment by dump-train 39
"Small temporary railroads peopled with hordes of restless engines" 39
Cutting a path for the railroad through the crest of the high hills 44
This machine can lay a mile of track a day 45
"Sometimes the construction engineer ... brings his line face to face with a mountain" 52
The busiest tunnel point in the world--at the west portals of the Bergen tunnels, six Erie tracks below, four Lackawanna above 53
The Hackensack portals of the Pennsylvania's great tunnels under New York City 53
Concrete affords wonderful opportunities for the bridge-builders 68
The Lackawanna is building the largest concrete bridge in the world across the Delaware River at Slateford, Pa. 68
The bridge-builder lays out an assembling-yard for gathering together the different parts of his new construction 69
The new Brandywine Viaduct of the Baltimore & Ohio, at Wilmington, Del. 69