Interesting old book on railroad operations

[ssbobz]

I found this while doing some web exploring

https://archive.org/details/freightterminal04droegoog

Freight terminals and trains, including a revision of Yards and terminals
by Droege, John Albert, 1861-1961
Published 1912

You can download it in several formats

[OldProf]

Thanks for this reference. I've looked briefly at both the PDF and Kindle formats, neither of which includes the figures (illustrations). The book is out of copyright and, presumably, Google, which digitized the original text, simply scanned or photographed the pages, so why are the figures missing? Odd.

[ssbobz]

I downloaded the pdf and the illustrations came out fine, there are several yard diagrams included, not sure what is happening with your copy.

[buzz456]

I downloaded the pdf version and I see pictures.

yard.jpg

[OldProf]

I downloaded the pdf and the illustrations came out fine, there are several yard diagrams included, not sure what is happening with your copy.

I'll have to give it another try. Thanks for this information.

[evafan002]

I found this while doing some web exploring

https://archive.org/details/freightterminal04droegoog

Freight terminals and trains, including a revision of Yards and terminals
by Droege, John Albert, 1861-1961
Published 1912

You can download it in several formats

thanks for this.. both the link to the book in question and for alerting me to that sites existence

[gtrtroger]

Interesting look into turn of the century railroading, as well as a lot of "not so common" information about railroad ops.