



AMERICAN BAILWAT CARRIAGE. INTERIOR. 



LOCOMOTION BY RIVER AND RAILWAY 



IN THE UNITED STATES. 

 CHAPTER III. 



1. Railways carried to centre of cities Mode of turning corners of streets. 

 2. Accidents rare. 3. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh line. 4. Ex- 

 tent and returns of railways. 5. Traffic returns. 6. Western lines 

 Transport of agricultural produce. 7. Prodigious rapidity of 

 progress. 8. Extent of common roads. 9. Kailways chiefly single 

 lines. 10. Organisation of companies and acts of incorporation. 

 11. Extent of railways in proportion to population. 12. Great advan- 

 tages of facility of inland transport in the United States. 13. Passen- 

 gers not classed. 14. Recent report on the financial condition of the 

 United States railways. 15. Table of traffic returns on New England 

 lines. 16. CuWn railways. 17. Recapitulation. 



1 . IN" several of the principal American cities, the railways are 

 continued to the very centre of the town, following the windings 

 of the streets, and turning without difficulty the sharpest corners. 

 The locomotive station is, however, always in the suburbs. 

 Having arrived there, the engine is detached from the train, and 

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