Marshall Monroe Kirkman

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Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1842-1921) was an American authority on railways, born in Illinois. He entered the service of the Chicago and North Western Railway in 1856 and rose to the position of vice-president in 1889. He wrote extensively on the subject of railways. He wrote The Science of Railways (1894), which was later revised and republished in 17 volumes, and 3 portfolios (1909, et. seq.). The titles of the various volumes are:

• Locomotive, Engine Failures, and Motive Power Department
• Engineer's and Fireman's Handbook
• Air Brake: Its Construction and Working
• Shops and Shop Practice (two volumes)
• Cars: Their Construction, Handling, and Supervision
• Organization of Railways, and Financing
• Passenger Train Traffic and Accounts
• Freight Traffic
• Building and Repairing Railways
• Operating Trains
• Electricity Applied to Railways
• Locomotive Appliances
• Collection of Revenue
• General Accounts and Cash
• Safeguarding Railway Expenditures
• Railway Rates and Government Ownership
• Locomotive Portfolio
• Car Portfolio
• Air Brake Portfolio

M. M. Kirkman also wrote:

• The Romance of Gilbert Holmes (1900)
• Iskander (1903)
• The Alexandrian Novels (three volumes, 1909)
• History of Alexander the Great (1913)