In April 1856, Stanley C. Fowler, assisted by James J. Schock, began publishing the trade journal Western Railroad Gazette from offices at 128 South Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois.
[14] From 1884 to early 1887,[15] the publication was edited by Arthur Mellen Wellington, who used it to publish his work The Economic Theory of the Location of Railroads, first as a series of articles in 1876,[15] then as a book in 1877.
[15][16] The American landscape architect Horace Cleveland contributed articles about tree planting efforts in the western United States.
[7] Hindoo felt that the U.S. system placed too much responsibility upon a single dispatcher, who would "oversee all freight and passenger train movements on a division.
[7] Additional reader responses generally concurred with X's opinion, but did not provide solid suggestions about how to remedy such problems.