RAILROADS IN AMERICA - AMAZING ILLUSTRATED HISTORY 

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From the dust jacket:

Its busy cogwheels made Richard Bevithick's 1804 steam locomotive resemble a stripped alarm clock. And indeed, after his marvelous machine first pulled a payload in Wales, the world slowly awoke to a great revolution in land transport. Earth's enterprises would never move at a walk again.

The American Heritage History of Railroads in America explores the heart of that exciting revolution by rolling down the entire main line of the U.S.A.'s wonderful journey with trains - from The Best Friend of Charleston in 1830 (which blew up) to Amtrak today.

Railroads were arguably the most important phenomenon of the industrial revolution - and certainly the most ubiquitous. Yet their economic and social importance was only part of their profound impact on an age. They were also a form of art.

"Once there was a splendor in the railroad's passage," said that famous dilettante of railroads, Lucius Beebe. And many of the hundreds of historical photographs, paintings, and drawings in this book prove his point. The pages are rich with splendid machines, clever enterprisers, brave engineers, palatial depots, opulent cars, original architecture.

But there have always been wrong as well as right ways to run a railroad; so you'll also meet here an uproarious lot of scalawag stock waterers and corrupters of whole legislatures, the shoot-'em-up likes of Jesse James, strike-breaking bullies, and tragically careless operators. And there are great inventions to admire: air brakes, knuckle couplers, cow catchers, standard time zones...

By the end of the 19th century, you'll see railroads roar to the front as America's biggest business - feared and overregulated for their political and fiscal power, admired for their huge contributions to our national wealth and mobility... until the age of gasoline took over. Diesels, mergers, and half-measures have failed to stem the deterioration that followed World War II. But hope for revival stirs anew, spurred by our energy needs and cheered by an army of railroad buffs.

INDEX

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Accidents/disasters/wrecks • Active • Charles Francis Adams Jr. • John Quincy Adams • Adams Express • Adlake (Adams and Westlake) Company • Adonis • Advertising, by engine builders • Advertising, by interurbans • Advertising, on railroad cars • Advertising, by railroads • Aerotrain • Air brakes • Airlines • Ajax • Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909; Seattle) • Albany & Susquehanna Railroad • Allburgh Express • Nelson Aldrich • Joseph L. Alioto • Allegheny Portage Railroad • Horatio Allen • William Frederick Allen • America • American City Lines • American Federation of Labor • American Freedom Train • American Locomolive Company • American Railway Union • American Telephone & Telegraph • Oakes Ames • Oliver Ames • Ames family • Ammonoosuc • Amoskeag Manufacturing Company • Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) • Florida & Gulf Railroad Andalusia • James J. Andrews • "Angola Horror" • Ann Arbor line • Appleton's Railway & Steam Navigation Guide • Argent lumber railroad • George B. Armstrong • Chester A. Arthur • Ashtabula (Ohio) wreck • Vincent Astor • Atalanta • Atchison & Topeka Railroad • Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway • Atlanta: Civil War and railroads • Atlanta & West Point Railroad • Attila • Ellis D. Atwood • T.L. Atkins (engraving by) • Henry Austin • Automotive industry • Autotrain

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Matthew Baird • Baker. George F. • Matthias William Baldwin • Baldwin Locomotive Works • Baltimore: interurban • Baltimore: Mount Royal Station • Baltimore & Ohio Museum • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad • Simon Bamberger • Bamberger lines • Bangor Express • Bar Harbor (Maine): limited to • Abraham Beame • Lucius Beebe • Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad • Benham's City Directory and Annual Advertiser • William Bensinger • Thomas Hart Benton • Berkshire Express • Berkshire line (trolley) • George Bernard • Best Friend of Charleston • Big Shanty Museum (Kennesaw, Georgia) • John L. Billard • "Black Friday" • James G. Blaine • John Blenkinsop • Blucher • Boston: railroads and stations • Boston & Albany Railroad • Boston & Lowell Railroad • Boston & Maine Railroad • Boston & Mt. Desert Limited • Boston & Providence Railroad • Boston & Worcester Railroad • Boston Herald • Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad • J.J. Boyd • Bradford • Thomas Bradley • James B. Brady (Diamond Jim) • Braxton Bragg • John Braithwaite • Brakemen • Brakes and brake failures • Louis D. Brandeis • Branford Electric Railway • Bridges/viaducts/trestles • Duke of Bridgewater • Bridgton & Harrison Railroad • Bristol (steamboat) • Broad gauge • Broadway Limited • Joseph ("Steve") Broady • James Brooks (locomotive builder) • Representative James Brooks • John W. Brooks • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers • Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen • Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen • George W. Brown (The Freeway Failure) • John Brown • William H. Brown ("The First Locomotives in America") • William Jennings Bryan • James Bryce • James Buchanan • Buffalo • Building News • Burlington Northern Railroad • Burlington Railroad • D.H. Burnham

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Caboose • California Limited • California Western Railroad • Cambridge (New York) station • Cambridge City (Indiana) station • Camden & Amboy Railroad • Camden & Atlantic Railroad • Camp Hill disaster • Henry R. Campbell • Canaan (Connecticut) station • Canada: railroads and rail links with • Canada: Mennonites • Canada: shortline railroads • Canadian National Railway • Canals and waterways • Henry Carbaugh • Andrew Carnegie (Autobiography) • Carrabassett • Charles Carroll • Carrollton Viaduct (Relay, Maryland) • Mrs. Lettie Gay Carson • Dan Casement • Jack Casement • "Bat" Casey • "Butch" Cassidy • Tom Cavanagh • Central New England Railroad • Central Pacific Railroad • Central Railroad (of Georgia) • Central Railroad of New Jersey • Century of Progress Exposition (1933: Chicago) • Chester W. Chapin • Charleston Courier • Chattanooga: Union Station • Chattanooga National Cemetery • Cheneyville (Connecticut) station • Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad • Cheshire • Chessie (Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad) • Chicago: Century of Progress Exposition • Chicago: interurbans • Chicago: railroads and stations • Chicago: World's Columbian Exposition • Chicago & North Western Railroad • Chicago, Aurora & Elgin (interurban) • Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad • Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul & Pacific Railroad • Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad • Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad • Chicago Times • Chief • Chinese construction crews • Waiter Chrysler • Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad • Circus trains • Civil War (and railroads) • Horace Clark • John T. Clark • Clayton Act (1914) • Charles Clegg • Grover Cleveland • Cleveland & Toledo Railroad· "Angola Horror" • DeWitt Clinton • Coal • Richard Cobden • William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") • Lorenzo Coffin • Cog railways • Schuyler Colfax • Charles Collins • Colorado: narrow-gauge railroads • Colorado & Southern Railway • Colorado Midland Railroad • Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad • Commodore • Conductors • Connecticut Company (trolleys) • Connecticut Valley Electric Transit, advertisement for • ConRail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) • Construction crews (Chinese; Irish; Mormons) • Jay Cooke • Jay Cooke & Company • Calvin Coolidge • Peter Cooper • Abel Corbin • Ezra Cornell • Cornell University • Erastus Corning • Corsair (steam yachts) • Coupling, automatic • Crazy Horse • Credit Mobilier • Cripple Creek line • Charles Crocker • Davy Crockett • William G. Crush • Cuban Special • Nicolas Cugnot • Shelby M. Cullom • Cumberland Valley Railroad: stations • Currier and Ives: "The Great Race for the Western Stakes, 1870" • Currier and Ives: "A Kiss in the Dark" • George Armstrong Custer • Ted Custer • Cyclone

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Stuart Daggett (Railroad Reorganization) • Dakotas: immigrants and homesteaders • Danforth, Cooke & Co. • George H. Daniels • Gussie L. Davis ("In the Baggage-Coach Ahead") • Jefferson Davis • William Davis • Sir Humphry Davy • Eugene Victor Debs • Everett DeGolyer • Delaware & Hudson Canal Company • Delaware & Hudson Railroad: stations • Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad • Denver & Rio Grande Railroad/Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad • Denver Pacific Railroad • Denver-Pueblo-Canon City lines • Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad • Chauncey Depew • Depots • Detroit United Railway: route map • De Witt Clinton • Peter A. Dey • Charles Dickens • Emily Dickinson • Diesel locomotives • Sidney Dillon • Dining and dining cars • Disasters • Dispatchers • John A. Dix • Dixie Flyer • John Dobbin (sketch by) • Grenville Mellen Dodge • Elliot Donnelley • Daniel Dorsey • Stephen A. Douglas • Daniel Drew • Drew (side-wheeler) • Henry Dreyfuss • Isaac Dripps • John Duff • Frederick C. Dumaine • Tom Dunn • Durango-Silverton line • Thomas C. Durant

E
East Broad Top line • Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts • T.T. Eckert • Edaville Railroad • Edwardsburg (Michigan) station • C.L.W. Eidlitz • Albert Einstein • Electric Bond & Share • Electric lighting • Electric Railroaders Association • Electric railroads and engines • Electro-Motive Corporation • Elkins Act (1903) • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Emigrants • Empire State Express • Engineering • Engineers ("hoggers") • England • English Electric Company • John Ericsson • Erie Canal • Erie-Lackawanna Railroad • Erie Railroad • Europe: railroads • Oliver Evans • William Marcy Evarts

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Fall River Line (steamboats) • Fast Mail (of Lake Shore & Michigan Southern) • Fast Mail (of Southern Railway) • Federal Express • Ferries • David Dudley Field • Millard Fillmore • Finance • Firemen • Firestone Tire and Rubber Company • Charles E. Fisher • James Fisk • Fitchburg Railroad • Henry M. Flagler • Floods (and railroads) • Florida East Coast Railway • Flying Dutchman • Flying Express • Folklore and legend: railroad men • John Murray Forbes • Henry Ford • Benjamin Franklin • Harold Fratus • Fredonia (Kansas) station • Freight/freight trains • Harry French • "Frisco Railroad" (St. Louis-San Francisco Railway) • Frugality • Annie Laurie Fuller • W.A. Fuller • Robert Fulton

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Galena & Chicago Union Railroad • James A. Garfield • John W. Garrett • Gauge • General • General Motors Corporation • King George VI • Dave George ("The Wreck or the Old 97") • George Washington • Georgetown, Breckinridge & Leadville Railroad • Georgetown Loop • Georgia Railroad • Georgia State Railroad • Georgian • Germans: construction crews • Germany, West: transportation • Giant • Charles Dana Gibson (Love's Express) • Wiliiam Gillette • William Ewart Gladstone • Gold and Gold Rush • Golden Spike Centennial (train) • Goliath • George Gould • Jay Gould • Government • Gowan & Marx • Grand Trunk line • Grangers and Granger laws • Donald Grant • Ulysses S. Grant • Grasse River Railroad • Gravers Lane (Pennsylvania) station • Great Falls & Conway Railroad • Great Northern Railroad • Great Western Railway of Canada • Horace Greeley • Henry Green • Green Mountain Flyer • Wesley Griswold (Train Wreck) • H.C. Grossman

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Timothy Hackworth • Henry W. Halleck • Herbert E. Hamblen (The General Manager’s Story) • Henry Haney • Hannibal • Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad • Hanover Branch Railroad • Hanover Junction (Pennsylvania) station • Warren G. Harding • Harlem Railroad (New York & Harlem Railroad) • William A. Harney • Harper's Weekly (illustrations) • Edward Henry Harriman • Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) station • Joseph Harrison Jr. • Bret Harte • Frederick Henry Harvey • Herman Haupt • F. Jay Haynes (photograph by) • John N. Hazard • William Hedley • H.J. Heinz • Paul Helleu • James S. Hemingway • Edward Lamson Henry • O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) • Robert Selph Henry • James N.J. Henwood (A Short Haul to the Bay) • Hepburn Act (1906) • Hercules • Hiawatha • Thomas Hicks • High Iron Company • Highways and turnpikes • James Jerome Hill • Hinckley Locomotive Works • George Hoar • Stewart Holbrook • Cyrus K. Holliday • Henry Hudson Holly • Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes • Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes • John B. Hood • Joseph Hooker ("Fighting Joe") • Mark Hopkins • Alfred F. Hoppel • Horses • Horseshoe Curve • William Howe • Howell-North Press • William Dean Howells • Freeman Hubbard • Hudson River Bridge • Hudson River Railroad (New York Central & Hudson River Railroad) • Edward Hungerford • Richard Morris Hunt • Collis P. Huntington • Henry Huntington • Huntington Library • William Huskisson

I
Illinois Central Railroad • Immigrants • Indianapolis: interurbans and station • Indians • George Inness (Lackawanna Valley) • Inebriate’s Express • Samuel Insull • International Harvester Company • Interstate Commerce Act (1887) • Interstate Commerce Commission • Interurbans and street railways • Irish: construction crews • Iron • Iron Mountain line

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Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") • William H. Jackson (photographs by) • Frank James • Jesse James • Thomas L. James • Eli H. Janney • Jason • J.C. Ayers • Jersey Central • Jersey City (New Jersey) station • John B. Jervis • John Bull • Johnstown flood • "Canada Bill" Jones • John Luther Jones ("Casey") • Chief Joseph • Theodore Dehone Judah • Jasper B. Judd • Jupiter

K
A.C. Kalmbach • Kankakee & Urbana (interurban) • Kansas: immigrants and homesteaders • Kansas City Southern Railroad • Kansas Pacific Railroad • Fanny Kemble • Kennecott Copper Corporation: railroad • Killingworth (England) Colliery • William R. King • Darius Kinsey (photograph by) • Norman W. Kittson • Jonathan Knight • William Knight • James Proctor Knott • Kuhn, Loeb & Company • Wilbur G. Kurtz

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Lackawanna Railroad • Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company (interurban) • Ladson (S.C.) station • Lake George (New York) station • Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad • Land grants • Benjamin H. Latrobe • Laurel Line (interurban): advertisement for • George R. Lawrence (photographs by) • Sir Thomas Lawrence (portrait by) • Lawrence Machine Shop: advertisement for • Lewis Cass Ledyard • Robert E. Lee • William Lee • Lehigh & Hudson Railroad • Lehigh Valley Railroad • Leslie’s Illustrated • Lester Levy • Arthur D. Lewis • Isaac Lewis • Roger Lewis • Lightning • Lima Locomotive Works • Limited Trains • Abraham Lincoln • Willie Lincoln • Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. • Theodore C. Link • Literature: popular • Literature: for railroad fans • "Little Joes" • Liverpool & Manchester Railway • Chancellor Robert R. Livingston • Locomotion No. 1 • Locomotives (cabs; "camelback"; cowcatchers; diesel; electric; gas-turbine; horse-dr • lawn; repair and maintenance; steam) • Locomotives, steam-types (American; articulated; Atlantic; Berkshire; Big Boy; Challenger; Consolidation; Hudson; Mallet articulated compound; Mikado; Mogul; Mountain; Niagara; Northern; Pacific; Prairie; Santa Fe; Shay; switcher; ten-wheeler; Texas) • Benjamin Loder • London & Birmingham Railway • Stephen H. Long • Long Island Railroad • Long Key Viaduct (Florida) • James Longstreet • Eleazar Lord • Los Angeles: Pacific Electric Railway System • Louisville & Nashville Railroad • Frank O. Lowden • Peter Lynn (To Hell in a Day Coach)

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William Gibbs McAdoo • Daniel C. McCallum • George Brinton McClellan • Elmer E. McGaffey • Patrick B. McGinnis • William McKay • McKim, Mead & White • William McKinley • J.A. McMurtie • Mail, transport of • Mail clerks • Maine Central Railroad • Anatole Mallet • Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel • Helen Josephine Mansfield ("Josie") • Marshall, Elysian Fields & Southwestern Railroad • Martha's Vineyard • Massachusetts: railroads and stations • "Bat" Masterson • David Matthew • George Gordon Meade • Carroll L.V. Meeks • Charles S. Mellen • Memphis & Charleston Railroad • Mennonites • Louis Menk • "Frank Merriwell" • Metroliner • Mexican National Railway • Michigan Central Railroad • Michigan Southern railroad • G. MacCulloch Miller • John Miller • J.S. Miller • Darius Ogden Mills • Milwaukee Road • Mining (and railroads) • Charles Minot • Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway ("Katy") • Missouri Pacific Railroad • O.M. Mitchell • Mixed trains • Mobile & Ohio Railroad • Mohawk • Mohawk & Hudson Railroad • Nicolaus Mohr • "Money Trust" • Samuel Montague • David P. Morgan • J. Pierpont Morgan • J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. • J.P. Morgan & Co. • Christopher Morley (Infernal Revenue; "On Time") • Mormons: construction crews • Morris & Essex Railroad • Victor Morse (Thirty-six Miles of Trouble) • Levi P. Morton • Morton Salt Company • Edward Harold Mott (Between rhe Ocean and the Lakes: the Story of Erie) • Mount Royal • Mount Washington (New Hampshire) cog railway • Lewis Mumford • William Murdock • Anthony Murphy • Marion E. Murray • Matthew Murray • Museums • Music: railroading songs

N
Nantasket Beach line • Nantucket: railroad and steamboats • Narragansett Pier Railroad • Narrow gauge • Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad • Thomas Nast (drawing by) • National Association of Railroad Passengers • The National Car Builder • National City Lines • The National Police Gazette • National Railway Historical Society • Naugatuck Railroad • Nellie Bly • Newark & Granville Street Railway • New Bedford: railroads and steamboats • Thomas Newcomen • New Englander (magazine) • New England States • New Haven Railroad • New Haven (Connecticut) station • New York & Erie Railroad • New York & Erie Telegraph Company • New York & Harlem Railroad • New York & New England Railroad • New York & Western Unnion Telegraph • New York Central Railroad (and system) • New York City (Delmonico's Restaurant; Grand Central Station; interurbans; Pennsylvania Station; railroads; Tammany) • The New Yorker • New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad • New York, Ontario & Western Railroad • New York Sun • The New York Times • New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad • New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad • New York World • Niagara Belt Line (electric) • Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge • Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad) • Nome River Bridge • Norfolk (Connecticut) station • Norfolk & Western Railroad • William Norris • North Coast Limited • North Conway (New Hampshire) station • North Easton (Massachusetts) station • North Pennsylvania Railroad • North Shore (Chicago interurban) • North Star & Mifflin Railroad • Northeast Corridor • Northeast Transportation Coalition • Northern Central Railroad • Northern Pacific Railroad • Northern Securities Company • Northumbrian • Norwich & Worcester Railroad • Novelty

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Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines • William B. Ogden • Oil • Old Colony Railroad • Old Ironsides • "Old Maud" • Frederick Law Olmsted • William G. O'Neill • Orange & Alexandria Railroad • Oregon & California Railroad • Oregon Railway and Navigation Company • Oruktor Amphibolus • Overland Limited

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Pacific City Lines • Pacific Electric Railway System • Pacific Express (wreck) • Pacific Railroad • Pacific Railroad Acts (1862, 1864) • Palace cars • Palm Beach: Royal Poinciana Hotel • William Jackson Palmer • Samuel J. Parker • Parlor/palace cars • Jacob Parrott • Passenger travel (by airplane) • Passenger travel (by automobile) • Passenger travel (by railroad) • Passenger travel (by stagecoach) • Passenger travel (by boat) • Passes, free • Patrons of Husbandry • Franklin Peale • Edward Pease • Penn Central (Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company) • Pennsylvania: railroads • Pennsylvania Limited • Pennsylvania Railroad • Pennsylvania Society for Internal Improvements • Pennsylvania Turnpike • Josiah Perham • Charles Elliott Perkins • A.J. Phelps • George D. Phelps • Philadelphia: interurbans • Philadelphia & Reading Railroad • Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad • Charlie Phillips • Wendell Phillips • Phoebe Snow • Phoenix • Franklin Pierce • H.F. Pierson (photograph by) • Pike's Peak railway • Gilford Pinchot • Pinkerton's National Detective Agency • Pioneer Zephyr • William Pittenger • Pittsburgh: railroad strike (1877) • Pittsburgh & Moon Run Railroad • Pittsfield line • Planet • David Plowden (photographs by) • Polson Logging Company: railroad • M.C. Poor (Denver South Park & Pacific and Pictorial Supplement) • John Russell Pope • John R. Porter • Porters • Portland (Maine) station • Poughkeepsie Bridge • Jeremiah Prescott • Private cars and trains • Promontory (Utah): meeting point of Pacific Railroad • Providence (steamboat) • Providence & Stonington Railroad • Puck: "Let Them Have It All, And Be Done With It" • Puffing Billy • George Mortimer Pullman • Pullman Company (Pullman Palace Car Company/Pullman Standard)

Q
Queen of the Valley

R
Racer • Railroad (magazine) • The Railroad Book • Railroad Enthusiasts (organization) • Railroad fans and enthusiasts • Railroad land grants • Railroad Safety Appliance Act (1893) • Railroad workers • Railroad yards • Railway and Locomotive Historical Society • Railway Mail Service (Postal Transportation Service) • Rainhill Trials • Rates • Raton Pass • Lord Ravensworth (Sir Thomas Liddell) • Reading Railroad • William C. Redfield • Redondo Beach (California): Redondo Hotel • Robert C. Reed • Samuel Reed • Reed & Stern • Richard Reinhardt (Workin' on the Railroad) • Paul H. Reistrup • Reno boys • Resorts and sightseeing • Revere (Massachusetts) wreck • Grover Cleveland Richards • H.H. Richardson • Richmond (Virginia): Broad Street Station • Richmond & York River Railroad • Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad • Right Arm • Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus train • Rio Grande Railroad • Rio Grande Southern line • George Roberts • Archie Robertson (Slow Train to Yesterday) • Albert Robinson • Lucius Robinson • Rochester & Utica Railroad • Rock Island Railroad • John D. Rockefeller • Percy Rockefeller • William Rockefeller • Rocket • John Augustus Roebling • Thomas Rogers • W.A. Rogers (cartoon by) • Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor • L.T.C. Rolt • Theodore Roosevelt • Rosecrans. William S. • Route mileage • Ross Rowland • Royal Gorge • Andrew J. Russell (photographs by) • Charles Edward Russell • Rutland Railroad

S
Safety measures • Russell Sage • Sail cars • St. Croix & Lake Superior Railroad, proposal for • St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad • St. Louis: interurban • St. Louis: stations • St. Louis-San Francisco Railway • St. Louis Southwestern Railroad • St. Louis World's Fair • St. Paul & Pacific Railroad • St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad • Samson • Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad • San Francisco: BART • San Francisco earthquake and fire • San Francisco: Key System • San Francisco Chief • San Francisco Examiner • San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge • San Juan • Sans Pareil • Santa Fe Railway • Santa Fe de-Luxe (advertisement for) • Aaron Sargent • Wallace Saunders • Thomas Savery • Schenectady (New York) station • Jacob H. Schiff • C.B. Schmidt • Carl Schurz • Thomas A. Scott • Seattle: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909) • Section gangs • Senecawanna • Henry H. Sessions • Seward Peninsula Railway • Kate Shelley • Hayward Sheppard • William Tecumseh Sherman • Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) • Shoreline Electric Railway • Short-line railroads • Daniel Sickles • Signal and control systems • J.W. Sill • W.H. Simmons (engraving by) • Sitting Bull • Sleeping cars and accommodations • E.C. Smeed • Samuel Smiles • Donald A. Smith • E. Boyd Smith (The Railroad Book) • William Prescott Smith • Smoky Mary • Socrates • South Carolina Canal and Rail-Road Company • South Carolina Railway • South Carver (Massachusetts): Bridgton & Harrison Railroad moved to • South Manchester Railroad • South Pennsylvania Railroad • South Shore (Chicago interurban) • Southern Pacific Railroad • Southern Railway • Southwestern Limited • Frank J. Sprague • Stagecoaches • Joseph Stalin • Stampede • Standard gauge • Standard Oil Company • Standard Oil of California • Leland Stanford • Stanford University • Edwin M. Stanton • Otto Stark (drawing by) • Stationmasters • Stations/depots/terminals • Steam locomotives • Steam Passenger Service Directory • Steamboats and ferries • Steel • Edward Steichen • Richard Steinheimer (photograph by) • George Stephen (Lord Mount Stephen) • George Stephenson • George Robert Stephenson • Robert Stephenson • Robert Stephenson ("Old Bob") • Stephenson Locomotive Works • Francis Lynde Stetson • Edwin A. Stevens • John Stevens • Robert Livingston Stevens • Stevens Institute (Hoboken) • James Stevenson (cartoon by) • Robert Louis Stevenson • W.H. Stewart • Stockton & Darlington Railway • Edward S. Stokes • Amasa Stone • Stourbridge Lion • John F. Stover • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Strasburg Railroad • Street railways • William Strickland • Strikes • Daniel Strong • George Templeton Strong • William Barstow Strong • Suez Canal • Louis Sullivan • Billy Sunday • Super Chief • Supreme Court • Susquehanna Railroad (New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad) • Peter B. Sweeney • Swedes: construction crews • James Swinnerton (cartoon by) • Switchmen

T
A. Tapy ("The Neigh of an Iron Horse") • Telegraph • Telegraphers • Texas • Texas & Pacific Railroad • Evan Thomas • Lately Thomas • Philip Thomas • John Edgar Thomson • Henry David Thoreau • Tiger • Time: standardization of zones • Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad • Tom Thumb • Daniel Torrance • J.M. Toucey • Tracks • George Francis Train • Train robbers • Trains (magazine) • Tramps • A Treasury of Railroad Folklore • Tredegar Iron Works • Trenton Junction (New Jersey) • Richard Trevithick • Trolleys • Trustee • George Tully • Tunnels • Turbo Trains • Turnpikes • William Marcy Tweed • Twentieth Century Limited

U
Ulster & Delaware Railroad: advertisement for • Ultimate Thule, Arkadelphia & Mississippi Railroad • Uncas • Union Pacific Railroad • Union Traction Company • Unions • Unit trains • United Aircraft Corporation: Turbo Train • United Corporation • United States Express Company • United States Military Railroads (Civil War) • United States Railway Association • United States Steel Company • United Transportation Union, AFL-CIO • Utica & Schenectady Railroad

V
Valley Railroad • Cornelius Vanderbilt • Cornelius Vanderbilt II • Frederick William Vanderbilt • George Washington Vanderbilt • William Henry Vanderbilt • William K. Vanderbilt • William K. Vanderbilt Jr. • Vanderbilt (locomotive) • Vanderbilt (side-wheeler) • Vanderbilt family • C.A. Van Doren • Van Sweringen. Mantis J. • Oris P. Van Sweringen • William Vanstavoren • Velocity • Viaducts • Henry Villard (Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard)

W
Wabash Railroad • Webster Wagner • Wagner Palace Car Company • Wannalancet • War of 1812 • Ware (Massachusetts) station • Ware River Branch • Whitney Warren • Washington, D.C.: Baltimore & Ohio station; Union Station • Waterways • James Watt • Wawayanda • Sim Webb • Daniel Webster • Thurlow Weed • illustration from), G. Weissenborn (American Locomotive Engineering • John L. Weller • Duke of Wellington • West Penn Junction station • West Point • West Point foundry • West River Railroad • West Shore Railroad • Western & Atlantic Railroad • Western Pacific Railroad • Western Railroad of Massachusetts • George Westinghouse • George Washington Whistler • Rogers E.M. Whitaker ("Mr. Frimbo") • John H. White Jr. • Stanford White • White Mountains and White Mountain line • White Plains (New York) station • Asa Whitney • Josiah Whitney • Frederic M. Whyte • Gorton Wilbur • William J. Wilgus • Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) station • William Mason • William R. Smith • Wilmington & Weldon Railroad • Henry Wilson • Woodrow Wilson • Ross Winans • Winona Traction Company • Bill Withun • Wood • Jonah Woodruff • Woodruff Sleeping and Palace Car Company • Worcester Consolidated Street Railway • Worcester Salt Company: special train • World's Columbian Exposition (1893, Chicago) • World War I (and railroads) • World War II (and railroads) • Wrecks • Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad • Wylam (England) Colliery

Y • Z
Yellowstone National Park • Yonah • Brigham Young • Robert R. Young • "Younger boys" • Zephyrs • Rufus Zogbaum (sketch by)