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FOREWARD of 1942 Quiz Book on Railroads and Railroading
This book is dedicated to the curiosity of the American people. Every day and every hour of the day railroad men and women are plied with questions about the railroads. In many instances they are able to supply the answers; in many other instances they do not have the necessary facts or figures conveniently at hand.
The following questions and answers have been compiled to provide railway patrons, railway employees and all other persons who are interested in the railroads with accurate and succinct facts about the railway industry, its organization, its history, its size, its physical plant, its investments, its capitalization, its operations, its accomplishments, and the part the railroads play as providers of transportation service, as fields of investment, as employers of labor, as purchasers of the products of industry and as contributors in taxes toward the support of federal, state, county and local governments.
The many facts herein contained will provide the reader with a wide range of information concerning one of America's basic industries and the place which it occupies in the nation's economic structure.
Association of American Railroads
Washington, D. C May, 1942.
(Second Edition)
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