"The despatcher may have come from some lonely country station" 273 "The superintendent is not above getting out and bossing the wrecking-gang once in a great while" 273 The New York Central Railroad is building a new Grand Central Station in New York City, for itself and its tenant, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad 284 The concourse of the new Grand Central Station, New York, will be one of the largest rooms in the world 284 South Station, Boston, is the busiest railroad terminal in the world 285 The train-shed and approach tracks of Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, still one of the finest of American railroad passenger terminals 285 Connecting drawing-room and stateroom 296 "A man may have as fine a bed in a sleeping-car as in the best hotel in all the land" 296 "You may have the manicure upon the modern train" 297 "The dining-car is a sociable sort of place" 297 An interior view of one of the earliest Pullman sleeping-cars 302 Interior of a standard sleeping-car of to-day 303 "Even in winter there is a homely, homey air about the commuter's station" 314 Entrance to the great four-track open cut which the Erie has built for the commuter's comfort at Jersey City 314 A model way-station on the lines of the Boston & Albany Railroad 315 The yardmaster's office--in an abandoned switch-tower 315 "The inside of any freight-house is a busy place" 328 St. John's Park, the great freight-house of the New York Central Railroad in down-town New York 328 The great ore-docks of the West Shore Railroad at Buffalo 329 The great bridge of the New York Central at Watkins Glen 340 Building the wonderful bridge of the Idaho & Washington Northern over the Pend Oreille River, Washington 341 Inside the West Albany shops of the New York Central: picking up a locomotive with the travelling crane 350 A locomotive upon the testing-table at the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania 350 "The roundhouse is a sprawling thing" 351 Denizens of the roundhouse 351