The Railway Conquest of the World

Abt system of grading, 255, 307
Abu Hamed, 154
Aconcagua Peak, 128, 274
-- River, 277
Acre, Bay of, 122
Adelaide, 184, 190
Adelsköld, Mme. Gustafva, 260
-- Major C., 260-62
Adhesion traction, 217
Africa, railways of, 79, 139-61
-- Cape to Cairo railway, 139-61
-- Central, railways of, 281-8
-- French West, 145
-- German East, 150
-- -- South-West, 79
-- Portuguese East, 281, 282
-- South, the war, 155
-- -- goldfields, 301
Air-brakes, 313
Airolo, 33, 35, 41, 42, 44
Akasha, 153
Alaska, 162
-- reclamation of, 102-16
Albany, 187
Albert Nyanza, Lake, 151, 161
Alexandria, 154, 158, 159
Allahabad, 252
-- -Fyzerbad railway, 252
Allan, Sir Hugh, 225
Alps, the, 162-3, 170
-- the Southern, 194
Amarillo Gorge, 274
Amazon River, 129, 270
America, South - first trans-continental railway, 270; laissez-faire attitude, 14; survey work, 9-11; world's highest line, 128-38
American Civil War, the, 309
American railway interests, 155, 183, 293, 300
Amur railway, the, 201, 211, 212
-- Valley, 209
Andermatt, village of, 42
Anderson, Messrs. J. & A, 195
Andes, the, 9, 128-9, 134, 135, 137, 177, 270, 271, 272, 274, 277, 278
-- Transandine railway, 270, 274
Animas Canyon, 170
Antofagasta railway, 136, 279
Arab raiders, 119, 126-7
Arabia, deserts of, 117
Argentina-Chile peace, 275
Arica, 279
Arkansas River, 164
Arlberg Tunnel, the, 88-9, 94, 95
Armstrong, Sir W. G., 200, 206
Arnold, Bion, 56
Asia Minor, 122
Assling, 97
Assuan, 158
Atbara, 154, 159
-- Bridge, 154, 156, 157
-- River, 154
Atlin, 111
Auckland, 194
Auspoint, 94
Australasia, railways of, 175-97
Australia, South - railways, 184-5; survey work, 191-3
Australia, West - railways, 176, 186, 187, 189; survey work, 190-92; trans-continental scheme, 190-191; water-supply, 187-9, 190-91
Austria, railway enterprise, 88, 90, 95
Avers Platz, 163
"Azure Dragon," the, 289, 296

Baden-Zurich railway, 31