Marshall Monroe Kirkman
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Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1842–1921) was an American
United States
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 authority on railways, born in Illinois
Illinois
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. He entered the service of the Chicago and North Western Railway
Chicago and North Western Railway
The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company was a Class I railroad in the Midwest United States. It was also known as the North Western. The railroad operated more than of track as of the turn of the 20th century, and over of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s...

 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)

External references

The Science of Railways books can be view here under author name Kirkman:
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_search/search010histrailroadsmgmtoperationsa.asp
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