2 parts - Part 1 1895-1897 with 4 chapters: The background history of motors and electric railways, The Baltimore and Ohio electrification, Branch line projects of the New Haven and the Pennsylvania, and Manufacturers" experimental locomotives. Part 2 1897-1905 has 6 chapters: the Gare d"Orsay electrification, Innovations and experiments in Europe, Test of high-speed operation in Germany, Progress in England and the United States, The Long Island electrification and Potentialities, engineering conclusions of 1905.