Includes index.

The pathfinders / Tom Curry--The Union Pacific / Nellie Snyder Yost--"Everywhere west": the Burlington / Edith Thompson Hall--Building the impossible / Todhunter Ballard--The wedding of the rails / Nellie Snyder Yost--Cinderella of the prairie: the Kansas Pacific / Mel Marshall--Across the top: building the northern roads / William O. Turner--The baby road / Steve Frazee--Highballing on wodden rails / Glenn R. Vernam--High iron by Christmas or the great Christmas race / Ellis Lucia--The benevolent and belligerant octopus: the Southern Pacific / Paul Bailey--The old Santa Fe Trail becomes a steel highway / Donald Duke--Then came the predators / William R. Cox--Railroad tragedies in the old West / Elmer Kelton--The western railroads today / Donald Duke.