The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways

· 1941

The Coming of the Railway--The Iron Road--The New Power--Engine and Rail--The Work of the Railway On the morning of October 6, 1829, there began at Rainhill, in England, a contest without parallel in either sport or industry. There were four entries:…

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