Identifier: railwaylibrary1914thom (find matches)
Title: The Railway library
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Thompson, Slason, 1849-1935
Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: Chicago, Gunthorp-Warren Printing Co
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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, from this point of view. As in every other feature, therailways of Germany were fully equipped and ready for just whathappened. On both frontiers, West and East, the strategic railwayhad been developed to an extent undreamed of in the military visionof other nations. Observant travelers now recall seeing scores ofidle locomotives on side tracks in out of the way regions, but showingno signs of neglect or rust. On 37,665 miles of railway line in 1912Germany had 28,357 locomotives, or 7y2 to every 10 miles, where inthe United States with 246,813 miles in the same year we had only62,262 locomotives, or IjA per 10 miles of line. Germany had 62,649passenger cars in 1912 against our 51,490, and German third andfourth class cars had seats for over 2,657,000 soldiers, to say noth-ing of room for a standing army. In her freight equipment werecars for every description of armament for military attack or statistics of American Railways 339 Network of Railways on the Eastern Frontier of Prussia
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Capital Cost (1912) 308,968 Marks per Kilometer ($118,610 per Mile) From the Statistik der im Betriebe befindlichen Eisenbahnen Deutschlands 1912 340 The Railway Library defense. German railways enabled Germany to face her foes andconcentrate her forces at either extreme of the empire with greaterease and rapidity than the allies could shift armies fifty miles alongany section of their extended lines. What preparation Germany had made to baffle if not crush Rus-sian assaults on the Polish frontier may be judged from the accom-panying map reproduced from the official German railway map of1912. This also gives some idea of the scarcity of strategical rail-ways on the Russian side of the border. In the appointment of the Director General of the HamburgAmerican Steamship line as traffic manager of its railways in thepresent efnergency the German government has made a significantadmission of the failure of the state system to develop the man forthe day. The staff graduated by an arbitrary

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