American railroad history is filled with accounts of misadventure.
Steam boilers blew up. Bridges collapsed under the weight of heavy
engines. Locomotives crashed head-on because of signal failures.
Passenger cars derailed, often with dire results. Lightly built
wooden coaches splintered on impact, and the debris often ignited
from the coals in the iron stoves used for heating. In the
mid-nineteenth century American railroading was burgeoning--a
growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of
19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot
help but find the photographs and public prints of the day
interesting. When you pick up this wonderous book, you will have a
hard time putting it down
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