Philosophy of railroads and other essays

T.C. Keefer''s Philosophy of Railroads is one of the greatest hymns of praise to the age of iron and steel ever written in North America. Better than any other document it shows why railroads were seen as the arteries of the Canadian nation during the nineteenth century, This volume brings four of Keefer''s works together with a brilliant introduction by H.V. Nelles. It includes Philosophy of Rail...