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The Railway Conquest of the World
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There is an unfathomable fascination with the romance connected to the construction of great railways, yet little is known of the beginning and growth of the pioneering railways of the world, of the heavy tax that their construction imposed on the ingenuity, skill and resources of their builders. Speeding swiftly along a railway with a road-bed as smooth as an asphalt pavement conveys no impression of the perils and dangers faced, or of the infinite labour extended in the making of that steel line. The Railway Conquest of the World tells this fascinating story. First published in 1911, it considers the most representative, largest and most interesting enterprises between the two poles. Frederick A. Talbot comprehensively writes of some of the most famous railways in the world in this engaging account. With a thought to the creators of the railways themselves, he considers the railway surveyor's adventurous life and the romance of construction itself before diving in to some of the greatest feats of technological advance: from the railway invasion of Canada to the Holy Railway of Mecca, and from Cecil Rhodes' dream to the Iron Horse of Australasia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Foreword
- Editor’s Note
- Preface
- One: The Railway Surveyor’s Adventurous Life
- Two: The Romance of Construction
- Three: The Boring of the Gotthard Tunnel
- Four: The Railway Invasion of Canada
- Five: The First Trans-Continental Across the United States
- Six: The Longest ‘Toy’ Railway
- Seven: The Wonders of the Tyrol
- Eight: The Reclamation of Alaska
- Nine: The Holy Railway to Mecca
- Ten: The Highest Line in the World
- Eleven: Cecil Rhodes’ Dream – From the Cape to Cairo (Northwards from Cape Town)
- Twelve: Cecil Rhodes’ Dream – From the Cape to Cairo (Southwards from Cairo)
- Thirteen: Gridironing the Rocky Mountains
- Fourteen: The Iron Horse in Australasia (I)
- Fifteen: The Iron Horse in Australasia (II)
- Sixteen: Across Siberia by Rail
- Seventeen: The Leopoldina Railway
- Eighteen: The First Canadian Trans-Continental Railway
- Nineteen: A Railway Over the Sea
- Twenty: The Land of Remarkable Railway Bridges
- Twenty-one: Where the Snowplough Works in Summer
- Twenty-two: From Buenos Aires to Valparaiso Overland
- Twenty-three: A Little-Known Central African Railway
- Twenty-four: The Invasion of the Far East – Early Days in China
- Twenty-five: The Invasion of the Far East – Modern Developments in China and Japan
- Twenty-six: The Conquest of the Cascade Mountains
- Picture Section