Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The First Railroads -- Early European Railroads -- The Stockton and Darlington Railway -- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway -- Characteristics of British Railroads -- The Rocket -- The Railroad in Continental Europe -- Early American Railroads -- The Orient Express -- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad -- Boston Railroads -- The South Carolina Railroad -- Chapter 2: The Development of Modern Railroads -- American Railroads -- Expansion into the Interior -- The Transcontinental Railroad -- The Pacific Railway Acts -- Advances in Traction Systems -- Railway Company Mergers -- Canadian Railroads -- The Canadian National Railway Company -- Modern Railways Around the World -- Diesel-Electric Locomotion and Electronic Systems -- Growth in Developing Countries -- High-Speed Passenger Lines -- Maglev -- Japan's Bullet Train -- Chapter 3: Locomotives -- Steam Locomotives -- Electric Traction -- Big Boy -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Types of Traction Systems -- Diesel Traction -- Diesel Development -- Elements of the Diesel Locomotive -- Types of Diesel Motive Power -- Traction Operating Methods -- Turbine Propulsion -- Chapter 4: Railroad Cars -- Freight Cars -- Passenger Cars -- Brake Systems -- Automatic Body Tilting -- Cars for Daytime Service -- Cars for Overnight Travel -- Intermodal Vehicles -- The Pullman Car -- Development -- Operations -- Passenger Intermodals -- Chapter 5: Railroad Tracks and Roadways -- Location and Construction -- Rail -- Rail Fittings -- Sleepers (Crossties) -- Track Maintenance -- Operations and Control -- Communications -- Signaling -- The Automated Hump Yard -- Chapter 6: The Elements of Bridge Design -- Basic Forms -- Beam -- World 's Longest-Span Beam Bridges -- Truss -- Arch -- World's Longest-Span Arch Bridges -- Suspension.

World's Longest-Span Suspension Bridges -- Cantilever -- World's Longest-Span Cantilever Bridges -- Cable-Stay -- World's Longest-Span Cable-Stayed Bridges -- Materials -- Wood and Stone -- Iron and Steel -- Concrete -- Construction -- Beam Bridges -- Arch Bridges -- Suspension Bridges -- Cantilever Bridges -- The Forth Bridge -- Cable-Stayed Bridges -- Performance in Service -- Live Load and Dead Load -- Forces of Nature -- Chapter 7: Bridge Design in the Industrial Age -- Iron and Steel, 1779-1929 -- Iron -- The Britannia Bridge -- Steel -- The First Concrete Bridges -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Reinforced Concrete -- Prestressed Concrete -- Steel After 1931 -- Long-Span Suspension Bridges -- Truss Bridges -- Cable-Stayed Bridges -- German Designs -- U.S. Designs -- Japanese Long-Span Bridges -- Os̄aka Harbour -- Island Bridges -- The Akashi Strait Bridge -- Chapter 8: Early Railroad Engineers -- Great Britain -- Richard Trevithick -- George Stephenson -- The United States -- Oliver Evans -- Peter Cooper -- John Jervis -- Chapter 9: Railroad Tycoons of the Gilded Age -- The Erie Railroad Company -- Jay Gould -- Daniel Drew -- James Fisk -- The New York Central Railroad Company -- Cornelius Vanderbilt -- William Vanderbilt -- The Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways -- Jay Cooke -- Henry Villard -- J.P. Morgan -- James J. Hill -- The Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads -- Collis P. Huntington -- Leland Stanford -- Mark Hopkins -- Charles Crocker -- The Union Pacific Railroad -- Oakes Ames -- Edward H. Harriman -- Chapter 10: Great Railroad Bridge Builders -- The 19th Century -- Robert Stephenson -- William Fairbairn -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- Charles Ellet -- James Eads -- Benjamin Baker -- John Fowler -- John Augustus Roebling -- Gustave Eiffel -- The 20th Century -- Gustav Lindenthal -- Othmar Ammann -- Ralph Freeman.

Ralph Modjeski -- Robert Maillart -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.