Cavalcade Of The Rails

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CAVALCADE OF THE RAILS BY FRANK P. MORSE Illustrated 1940 NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC. Copyright, 1940 By E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in the U. S. A. First printing February 1940 Second printing February 1940 This heavy freight train on the Norfolk & Western, capable of making a mile a minute, offers a picturesque contrast to the covered wagons that once crossed the plains at a little better than a mile an hour. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction: THE ROMANCE OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY 9 CHAPTER i THE LION'S FIRST AND LAST ROAR 21 ii A STEAM SHADOW CAST BY COMING EVENTS 32 HI RAILS RISE OVER THE MOUNTAINS 49 iv WHISTLES FOLLOW THE WAR WHOOP 65 v TINY ACORNS THAT BECAME GREAT OAKS 78 vi THIS Is THE ROAD THE BRIDE BUILT 89 vii THE BIRTH OF THE TRAIN DISPATCHER 102 viii THE SCARLET WOMAN OF WALL STREET 117 ix BLESSED EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THE WEDDING OF RIVERS 131 x DOWN THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL 147 xi WHERE THE Sioux AND THE BUFFALO PLAYED 160 xn RAIL DRAMA IN DUTCH FLAT 173 xin DRILL, You TERRIERS, DRILL 182 xiv BABY BONDS AND A BLIND POOL 197 xv AND THEY LAID JESSE JAMES IN His GRAVE 215 6 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE xvi THE ROAD THAT FOLLOWED THE PIG'S EYE DOG-TEAM 230 xvn RAIL BARONS MEET THEIR MASTER 244 xviii THE WEST CALLS FOR A HAND 263 xix THE MAN WHO BUILT His OWN EMPIRE 282 xx A GHOST DANCE ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE 296 xxi WATCH THOSE DRIVERS ROLL 307 xxii OPEN THROTTLES AND RED LIGHTS 321 xxm WHISKERS ON THE RAILS 337 Index 353 ILLUSTRATIONS This heavy freight train on the Norfolk & West ern offers a picturesque contrast to the covered wagons Frontispiece FACING PAGE Horse power via a treadmill and sails for rails 16 The birthof the Baltimore & Ohio on July 4, 1828 17 The belt slipped and the horse pulled ahead 32 A reproduction ( above) of the double-decked coaches used by the Baltimore & Ohio in 1830 and ( below) the Tom Thumb 33 ( Above) A reproduction of The Best Friend of Charles ton/' ( Below) Older than cross-ties 48 A reproduction of the DeWitt Clinton pulling the first passenger train on the Mohawk & Hudson 49 ( Above) Half a boat onward. ( Below) The Portage Rail road 64 Yes, she's from Dixie. The Mississippi/' oldest existing locomotive in the South 65 ( Above) The Stourbridge Lion/' ( below) an artist's vi sion of Horatio Allen's history-making run 80 ( Above) The Pony Express takes over the job at the end of the iron trail. ( Below) Transcontinental rails fol lowed trails worn deep by the creaking wheels of prairie schooners 81 The arrival of Central Pacific rails at Colfax, California, in 1865 doomed the old pioneer stage coach 112 The first Pullman sleeping car 113 Smoke-stacks shrink as speed spurts. ( Above) The first passenger train on the old San Jose Railroad. ( Below) The Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited 128 The advent of the dining car threw a monkey-wrench into the fried chicken and hot coffee industry of Ole Vir ginny. 129 7 8 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE ( Above) Their honorable ancestors built the Great Wall of China. ( Below) A handicap to high speed 144 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, in 1865 145 Union and Central Pacific Locomotives touch noses 160 East meets West. The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869 161 President Lincoln's funeral train arriving in West Phila delphia 192 The first train over Northern Pacific rails between St. Paul and Portland in1883 193 The New York Central's 999 setting a world's record of 112 miles an hour in 1893 208 Ships on the famous old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal saluted the Baltimore & Ohio's first Capitol Limited 209 The Evolution of the driver's perch. ( Above) The Pioneer, ( below) the interior of a modern cab 240 With and without the face-lift. A Pennsylvania locomotive ( above) running two miles a minute and ( below) the iron horse goes streamlined 241 The old order stoppeth, yielding place to new 256 ( Above) The man who must always be right. ( Below) The train conductor gives