Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Halftitle
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Foreword to the 2000 Edition
7. Author’s Note
8. I An Acorn is Planted
9. II Behind the Blueprints
10. III Wresting a Passageway
11. IV The Course is Shaped
12. V First Through Train
13. VI Mars in the Ascendant
14. VII Recovery from War
15. VIII Southward to Coal and Iron
16. IX Yellow Jack and Teredos
17. X Coke Feeds the Furnace
18. XI Presidential Parade
19. XII Changing the Rail Gauge
20. XIII Growth in Mining Areas
21. XIV Entering the Cumberlands
22. XV Expanding Services
23. XVI Builders and Wreckers
24. XVII More Bluegrass Pastures
25. XVIII Alabama Steel
26. XIX Consolidation Maneuvers
27. XX Nashville’s New Station
28. XXI Southward—to Georgia
29. XXII New Fields of Usefulness
30. XXIII L’Affaire Gates—Hawley
31. XXIV Shop Talk
32. XXV Y’s and Otherwise
33. XXVI A Look at Eastern Kentucky
34. XXVII North Fork Extension
35. XXVIII Harlan County Coal
36. XXIX Adjustment to War
37. XXX Federal Control
38. XXXI War’s Aftermath
39. XXXII An Era Ends
40. XXXIII We Mend Our “Ways”
41. XXXIV Belt-Tightening
42. XXXV Water on the Track
43. XXXVI War Again!
44. XXXVII World War II Years
45. XXXVIII The First Century Ends
46. XXXIX First Ten—Second Hundred
47. XL Into the Space Age
48. Appendices
49. Presidents of the L. & N
50. Railroads Acquired, Leased or Constructed
51. In Grateful Acknowledgment
52. Indices