Series title supplied from CIP data sheet; does not appear in published ed.

Time and Distance -- Travel in 1800 -- American Railroads in the Early 1830s -- Some Problems Solved -- A Broken Skein of Lines -- The Travels of Abe Lincoln, 1849 and 1861 -- Major Developments in the 1850s -- Western Commercial Traffic Changes Direction -- The Speed of Travel in 1860 -- Gauge Differences in 1860 -- Railroads and the Civil War -- Federal Land Grants for Railroads -- Railroads to the Pacific -- Postwar Construction -- Troubles in the 1870s -- A Decade of Record Railroad Building -- God's Time Became Vanderbilt's Time -- The Grange and the Railroads -- The 1890s -- Major Rail Combinations in the 1900s -- 1916: A Record Year -- Competition for the Railroad -- Streamliners in the 1930s -- Another War Won -- American Railroads in 1950 -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad -- Pennsylvania Railroad -- New York Central Railroad -- Erie Railroad -- Southern Railway -- Louisville & Nashville Railroad -- Illinois Central Railroad -- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad -- Seaboard Air Line Railroad -- Chesapeake & Ohio -- Norfolk & Western -- Union Pacific -- Southern Pacific -- Santa Fe -- Northern Pacific -- Great Northern -- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy -- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific -- Chicago & North Western -- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific -- New York, New Haven & Hartford -- Missouri Pacific -- Gulf, Mobile & Ohio -- Missouri, Kansas & Texas -- Denver & Rio Grande Western -- New York, Chicago & St. Louis -- Midcentury Problems -- Amtrak and Conrail, Courtesy of Uncle Sam -- The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 -- Railroads in the 1990s.