Railroad Gazette

The cover of Railroad Gazette, June 17, 1904 to December 31, 1904

Railroad Gazette, also referred to as The Railroad Gazette,[1][2] was a trade journal[3] published in the United States that focused upon railroad news, transportation and engineering.[4] The journal also published editorial content.[1] It was established and first published in April 1856.[5] Master mechanics were among the journal's readership, who would use it to share in technological information about various railway matters.[6]

Another publication of the same name Railroad Gazette was established in 1843 in Rogersville, Tennessee.[7] It focused exclusively upon "internal improvement".[7]

Content

An article published on April 18, 1884 in the Railroad Gazette, written by railroad engineer Horatio Allen and titled "The First Railroad in America", states that the author (Allen) was the operator of the first locomotive run in the United States on a railroad.[8] Allen stated that on August 9, 1829 he ran a locomotive named Stourbridge Lion in Pennsylvania "three miles and back over rails of wood upon which bar iron 2 ¼ inches wide and 1 ½ inch thick was spiked down".[8]

The Railroad Gazette reported about the electrification of the Erie Railroad's Rochester Division.[9] It also reported about the Thebes Bridge at the time the bridge was opened.[10]

Personnel

Arthur Mellen Wellington was one of the editors of Railroad Gazette from 1884 to early 1887.[11] Wellington's work The Economic Theory of the Location of Railroads was first published in a series of Railroad Gazette articles in 1876.[11] A book of the same content was published in 1877 by Railroad Gazette.[11][12] Matthias Nace Forney was editor of the publication in the (circa) 1870s.[13] In 1866, Forney patented a concept for urban elevated railways which "later became the de facto standard for elevated railway service".[14] Articles written by the noted American landscape architect Horace Cleveland that focused upon tree planting efforts in the western United States were published in the Railroad Gazette.[15]

Selected works

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Trachtenberg, A. (1979). Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. A Phoenix book. University of Chicago Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-226-81115-4.
  2. ↑ "Railroad Gazette". Railroad Gazette. p. 1. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Camp, Mark J. (2006). Railroad Depots of West Central Ohio. Arcadia Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 0738540099.
  4. ↑ "Railroad gazette : a journal of transportation, engineering, and railroad news". World Cat. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Railroad Gazette. Railroad Gazette. 1904.
  6. ↑ Fisk, Catherine L. (2009). Working Knowledge. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 135. ISBN 0807899062.
  7. 1 2 Foster, Austin P. (2009). Counties of Tennessee. Genealogical Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 080635061X.
  8. 1 2 Allen, Horatio (April 18, 1884). "The First Railroad in America". Daily Gazette and Bulletin (Williamsport, Pennsylvania). Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ "The Electrification of Erie Railroad's Rochester Division". The Diamond (Erie Lackawanna Historical Society) 20 (2). 2006. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Blog: Testing the Thebes Bridge". Southeast Missourian. January 17, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 Petroski, Henry (2010). Engineers of Dreams. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 196–197. ISBN 0307773132.
  12. ↑ Wellington, Arthur Mellen. The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways. Railroad gazette.
  13. ↑ Puffert, Douglas J. (2009). Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History. University of Chicago Press. p. 132. ISBN 0226685098.
  14. ↑ Cudahy, B.J. (2002). How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County. Fordham University Press Series. Fordham University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-8232-2209-4.
  15. ↑ Cleveland, H.W.S.; History, Library of American Landscape (1873). Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West: With an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains. American Society of Landscape Architects centennial reprint series. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-330-8.

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