Railroads in the Days of Steam-1960 publication---Although an older book, the book itself is in great shape, however the Dust Jacket has seen a lot of use. It has been taped together to keep from further. tearing. The pictures show what the book looks like without the dust jacket, as well as an inscription that is inside the book.
*****This handsome volume takes the reader on an adventure-filled journey along America's early railroads, through some of the most colorful and exciting moments in American history.
***The starting point is the day in 1804 when inventor Oliver Evans launched a contraption called Orukter Amphibolos, a combination wagon and boat, powered by steam--the amphibious forerunner of our first locomotive.
***By means of words and pictures, the reader travels across the early decades when canals were still America's favored mode of transportation...through the years of the Civil War, whose needs greatly accelerated the growth of railroads...on through the legendary days of the settling of the West, when trains were attacked by Indians and robbed by outlaws...to the dramatic moment in the Utah desert in 1869 when a golden spike driven by the Governor of California united East and West with one continuous thread of steel...and on to the many inventions that brought safety and comfort to travelers-by-rail during the last great days of steam.
***Here are the fabulous railroad financiers, the inventors, the union men, the heroes and the heroines who made vital contributions to this important and fascinating chapter from America's past.