Marshall Monroe Kirkman

Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1842–1921) was an American authority on railways, born in Illinois. He entered the service of the Chicago and North Western Railway 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: [1]

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Name	Kirkman, Marshall Monroe
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Date of birth	1842
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Date of death	1921
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