1.87.570 a-n
Set, Book
1903 Approximate
PLACEHOLDER Science of Railways 1903. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 8". Description: red hard cover books averaging about 500 pages per book; includes illustrations and engravings and photo portrait of author. Included in set: (a) v.1: Railway Equipment; (b) v. 2: Railway Organization; (c ) v. 3: Financing, Constructing and Maintaining; (d) v. 4: Train Service; (e) v. 5: Passenger, Baggage, Express and Mail Service; (f) v. 6: Freight Business and Affairs; (g) v. 7: Disbursements of Railways; (h) v. 8: Economic Theory of Rates; (i) v. 9: Principles Governing the Collection of Revenue; (J) v. 10: General Fiscal and Other Affairs; (k) v. 12: Engineers' and Firemen's Manual, General Index; (L) Supplement, Building and Repairing Railways; (m) Supplement, Locomotive Appliances; (n) Revision, The Air Brake (1907).
"The Science of Railways." Most volumes are hand inscribed: "H. M. Schlicht, Waseca, Minn." Books in set were reassigned accession numbers in 2009. Formerly 1.87.567+; Volume 11 missing.
Science or Railways
Kirkman, Marshall M.
World Railway Publishing Co.