Contains a series of lectures regarding the management and organization of railroads.

"This volume is published under the auspices of the Advisory Board on Railway Education."

The work of the law department of a railroad company /Blewett Lee -- The passenger department / Percy S. Eustis -- Railroad advertising / Charles S. Young -- Suburban passenger service / William L. Smith -- The industrial commissioner / William H. Manss -- The problem of handling less-than-carload freight expeditiously and economically at terminal stations / Nelson W. Pierce -- Office work in terminal yards / Ferdinand S. Atkin -- Car distribution and the supervision of fast freight / John M. Daly -- The problem of car service / Walter E. Beecham -- Freight claims / Ralph C. Richards -- Some notes on freight rates / Ernest R. Dewsnup -- Organization of the operating department of railroads / R.H. Aishton -- The purchasing agent / E.V. Dexter -- Ballast / A.S. Baldwin -- Railway terminal facilities / L.C. Fritch -- Railroad signaling / Charles A. Dunham -- Classification and types o locomotives / C.A. Seley -- The compound locomotive / W.R. McKeen, Jr. -- Car construction / J.H. Ames -- Duties of a comptroller or chief accounting officer / F. Nay -- The auditor of expenditures / Harry M. Sloan -- The work of the freight auditor / W.F. Dudley -- Vitalized statistics / James Peabody -- Railway development in Canada / William McNab -- Railway education / Ernest R. Dewsnup -- Appendix -- The differentiation of duties of the officials of the freight traffic department -- Returns from local freight stations -- The handling of out-freight at the Illinois Central Out-Freight House, foot of South Water Street, Chicago -- Cost of handling freight -- The red ball system of handling fast freight -- Per diem and car service rules; their meaning and application.