Excerpt from Steam and Its Uses: Including the Steam Engine, the Locomotive, and Steam Navigation Chap. III. - 1. Railways carried -to centre of cities-mode of turning corners of streets - 2. Accidents rare. - 3. Philadelphia and Pitts burgh line. Extent and re turns of railways. - 5 Traffic returns. 6. Western lines Transport of agricultural produce. -7. Prodigious rapidity of pro gress. 8. Extent of common roads. - 9. Railways chiefly single lines - 10. Organisation of com panies and acts of incorporation. - 11. Extent of railways in pro portion to population - 12. Great advantages of facility of inland transport in the United States. 13. Passengers not classed - 14. Recent report on the financial con dition of the United States rail ways - 15. Table of traffic returns on New England lines. -16. Cuban railways. - 1 7. Recapitulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.