At the noontide of the American passenger train, the general superintendent of the passenger-oriented New Haven Railroad addressed himself to the rail carriage of people in a lucid book that could be comprehended by anyone (but that, as Railway Age Gazette noted, would be "wanted in every railroad officer's library"). From the size of waiting rooms to the demeanor of redcaps, from the contest between A. C. and D. C. electrification to the menus of dining cars, no subject pertinent to the world of passenger terminals and trains in the year 1916 escaped the experienced eye of John A. Droege. Thus unconsciously he penned what is in retrospect a masterful history of how the railroads reacted when a restless, growing America besieged the gates of Union Station, intent upon purchasing tickets to everywhere from Passaic to Pasadena. Kalmbach has faithfully reproduced all 410 pages of the original edition of Droege's Passenger Terminals and Trains - which include 25 track diagrams, 31 station floor plans, 163 photos, and an index - and has taken the measure of the volume in a special introduction by Prof. George W. HIlton. An outstanding contribution to railroad literature.