EDITED BY

EMORY R. JOHNSON, PH.D., Sc.D.

PRINCIPLES OF

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION

BY

EMORY R. JOHNSON, PH.D., Sc.D.

PROFESSOR OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
AUTHOR OF "OCEAN AND INLAND WATER TRANSPORTATION,"
"ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION," ETC.

AND

THURMAN W. VAN METRE, A.M., PH.D.

INSTRUCTOR IN TRANSPORTATION IN THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

COPYRIGHT, 1903, 1904, 1908, 1916,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

CHAPTER

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION-DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF TRANSPOR-

TATION

Transportation defined, 2. The technics of transporta-

tion, 2. The service, 2. The economics of transportation,

3. Transportation economics and the science of political

economy, 3. Transportation and the production of

wealth, 4. Transportation and the use or consumption

of wealth, 4. Relation of transportation to the ex-

change of wealth or commerce, 4. Relation of trans-

portation to the distribution of wealth, 5. Transporta-

tion and political science, 7. The scope of this vol-

ume, 9.

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PART I

THE AMERICAN RAILROAD SYSTEM

II. ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN RAILROAD

Antecedents of the railroad, 14. Country roads and

turnpikes, 14. Canals and improved rivers, 16. Early

history of the railroad in America, 20. References, 23.

13-24

III. GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN RAILROAD NET

25-37

Growth in mileage by decades, 26. Importance of the

decade from 1850-1860, 26. Railroad consolidations, 28.

The decade 1860-1870, 30. The first transcontinental

lines, 30. The panic of 1873, 31. Construction from

1880-1890, 31. Construction since 1890, 32. Compari-

son of American and European railroad mileage, 33.

Magnitude of the railroad system in the United States.

33. References, 37.