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Modern Railway And Steamship Lines V1 (1912) (Paperback)
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Modern Railway And Steamship Lines V1 (1912) (Paperback)
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1912 Original Publisher: University Extension Society Subjects:
Transportation Railroads Inland navigation Transportation / General
Transportation / Railroads / General Transportation / Railroads /
History Transportation / Navigation Notes: This is a black and
white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and
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Excerpt: CHAPTER I. EVOLUTION OF THE COMMON CARRIER.
Transportation, in some form, has ever been one of the necessities
of the human race. Primitive man met his needs in this line by the
use of his fellow men as pack carriers, and in some parts of the
world, notably the jungle regions of Africa, this method is still
in vogue. From the human pack carrier there has been a gradual
evolution, through animal pack-carriers and beasts of burden, stage
coaches, boats and other conveyances, which has had its development
in the modern railroad with its palace cars and luxurious sleepers,
and the monster steamers of the lakes and oceans. Civilization
follows modern methods of transportation. Where primitive methods
of freight and passenger traffic are still in vogue we find the
progress of civilization slow, and frequently at a standstill.
Where- ever there is adequate modern transportation there we will
find the greatest intellectual and commercial prosperity, thriving
and advancing communities, and happy peoples. It would be unfair to
attribute all of this development to the railways, as water craft
have had their fair share in it and in many sections of the country
are indispensable, but it is undeniable that railways are first in
the order of importance. Developments of Eighty Years. In 1911
there were approximately 340,000 miles of railway in the United
States, and 26,230 in Canad...
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