compartment-cars

Updated: August 14, 2026

The railways, east and west, had just been created, the beginnings of what is now the New York Central Railroad, and every day, so far as possible, I went down-town ``to see the cars go out. During a large part of the year there was but one passenger-train in each direction, and this was made up of but three or four small compartment-cars drawn by a locomotive which would now be considered ridiculously small, at the rate of twelve to fifteen miles an hour.

Andrew Dickson White - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1