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The Railway Conquest of the World
by Frederick A. Talbot
1911
Contents
Preface
Chapter I. The Railway Surveyor's Adventurous Life
Chapter II. The Romance of Construction
Chapter III. The Boring of the Gotthard Tunnel
Chapter IV. The Railway Invasion of Canada
Chapter V. The First Trans-Continental Across the United States
Chapter VI. The Longest "Toy" Railway
Chapter VII. The Wonders of the Tyrol
Chapter VIII. The Reclamation of Alaska
Chapter IX. The Holy Railway to Mecca
Chapter X. The Highest Line in the World
Chapter XI. Cecil Rhodes' Dream -- From the Cape to Cairo (I.
Northwards from Cape Town
)
Chapter XII. Cecil Rhodes' Dream -- From the Cape to Cairo (II.
Southwards from Cairo
)
Chapter XIII. Gridironing the Rocky Mountains
Chapter XIV. The Iron Horse in Australasia (I.)
Chapter XV. The Iron Horse in Australasia (II)
Chapter XVI. Across Siberia by Rail
Chapter XVII. The Leopoldina Railway
Chapter XVIII. The First Canadian Trans-Continental Railway
Chapter XIX. A Railway over the Sea
Chapter XX. The Land of Remarkable Railway Bridges
Chapter XXI. Where the Snow-Plow Works in Summer
Chapter XXII. From Buenos Aires to Valparaiso Overland
Chapter XXIII. A Little-Known Central African Railway
Chapter XXIV. The Invasion of the Far East (I.
Early Days in China
)
Chapter XXV. The Invasion of the Far East (II.
Modern Developments in China and Japan
)
Chapter XXVI. The Conquest of the Cascade Mountains
Index
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