A MANUAL OF THE RAIL- 
ROAD BUSINESS 
A noticeable gap in business literature has 
just been filled by the appearance of 
RAILWAY ORGANIZATION AND WORKING 
LECTURES BY PROMINENT RAILWAY MEN 
Ldited by 
ERNEST R. DEWSNUP 
HIS volume is a compilation of special lectures delivered before the 
University classes in railway transportation during the period extend- 
ing from November, 1904, to May, 1906. It may be said in explanation 
that the University of Chicago, during the past two years, has undertaken, in 
association with a number of railways, the training of railway employees 
with the object of increasing their professional efficiency. To this end, 
courses have been conducted in a number of subjects bearing upon the 
traffic, auditing, operating, and other sides of the American railway. 
One feature of these courses has been the practical co-operation of rail- 
way Officials in the form of special lectures. A large number of applications 
having been received for printed copies of these lectures, as malty of them 
as practicable have been collected into the present volume. 
The numerous aspects of the railway service which it treats, the plain and 
nontechnical way in which every subject is handled, the fact that more than 
a score of railway experts of the highest reputation have collaborated in its 
production, all combine to make the book indispensable to the ambitious 
young “‘railroader” who desires to make sure his rise in the service by estab- 
lishing it upon as broad a foundation of knowledge as possible. 
It is also to be hoped that the book, and others of its kind that may follow, 
will have a stimulating effect upon the teaching of railway economics in our 
universities. The study of this volume ought certainly to give the student 
of railway economics a more vivid appreciation of the organization he studies. 
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