The Golden Age of Railroads

New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. Octavo with blue boards and red/navy stamping in yellow, orange and blue pictorial jacket; illustrated endpapers; x, 182 pages: color illustrations, maps; index; 22 cm. Very good (+) with slight edgewear to boards; clean and tight; Very good (-) jacket, small closed tear repaired with tape at spine; edgewear and light rubbing/foxing; now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

An account of the rapid growth of American railroads in the almost one hundred years between 1830 and 1920. Here are the trains, routes, and companies, the inventions and safety devices, the train robberies, and major disasters. The role of such men as Theodore D. Judah, William B. Ogden and Cornelius Vanderbilt is described. Includes a railroad almanac. (p. 177).