Reprinted from Scribner's magazine --Introduction, by T. M. Cooley.--The building of a railway, by T. C. Clarke. [June 1888]--Feats of railway engineering, by J. Bogart. [July 1888]--American locomotives and cars, by M. N. Forney. [August 1888]--Railway management, by E. P. Alexander. [January 1889]--Safety in railroad travel, by H. G. Prout. [Sept. 1889]--Railway passenger travel, by H. Porter. [Sept. 1888]--The freight-car service, by T. Voorhees. [May 1889]--How to feed a railway, by B. Norton. [August 1889]--The railway mail service, by T. L. James. [March 1889]--The railway in its business relations, by A. T. Hadley. [Oct. 1888]--The prevention of railway strikes, by C. F. Adams. [April 1889]--The every-day life of railroad men, by B. B. Adams, jr. [Nov. 1888]--Statistical railway studies, by F. W. Hewes.--Index