Outlines of American Railway Transportation (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Outlines of American Railway Transportation (Classic Reprint) written by Ralph H. Hess and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of American Railway Transportation A comprehensive study of transportation would include a survey of the transmission of goods, persons, and ideas by means of all known vehicles of the land, water, and air. The course of study here outlined is confined to an examina tion of the economic and social aspects of the transportation of goods, persons, and mails upon railways, and with special refer ence to conditions in the United States. In this study, matters of first importance concern the relation of the railway business to other businesses and to the nation as a social unit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.