Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965 by Mark Aldrich

Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965

Mark Aldrich

446 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that yea...

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