| Car Equipment | Page 3 |
| Classification of Electric Railways—Motors—Armature Winding—Armature and Field Coils—Armature and Motor Leads—Brushes and Brush-Holders—Gearing—Lubrication—Bearings—Motor Suspension—Electric Locomotive Motors—Controllers—Rheostat and Series-Parallel Control—Controller Construction—Multiple-Unit Control (Sprague, General Electric, Westinghouse Electro-Pneumatic)—Car-Heaters—Car Wiring—Electric-Car Accessories (Canopy Switches; Circuit-Breakers; Fuses; Lightning Arresters; Lamp Circuits; Trolley-Base; Trolley-Poles, Wheels, and Harp; Contact Shoes; Sleet Wheels)—Single Trucks—Swivel Trucks—Maximum-Traction Trucks—Car Wheels—Brake Rigging—Air-Brakes (Compressor, Automatic Governor, Storage Tanks)—Momentum Brakes—G. E. Electric Brake—Westinghouse Electromagnetic Brake—Track Brakes—Motors as Emergency Brakes—Brake Shoes—Track Sanders—Drawbars and Couplers. | |
| Car Construction | Page 67 |
| Car Bodies—Steel Car Framing—Car Weights—Car Painting. | |
| Line Construction | Page 73 |
| Overhead Construction—Trolley-Wire—Clamps and Ears—Span Wires —Brackets—Feeders—Section Insulators—High-Tension Lines —Third-Rail System—Conduit Systems—Contact Plow—Current Leakage—Track Construction—Girder Rail—Trilby Groove Rail —Shanghai T-Rail—Common T-Rail—Track Support—Ballast — Joints (Welded, Cast-Welded, Electrically Welded, Thermit-Welded) —Bonding and Return Circuits—Feeder Systems—Block Signals — Electrolysis and Its Prevention. | |
| Power Supply and Distribution | Page 98 |
| Direct-Current Feeding—Booster Feeding—Alternating-Current Transmission—Interurban Distribution—Power-House Location —Alternating-Current Generators—Double-Current Generators —General Plan of Power Stations—Switchboards—Generator D. C. Panels—Starting Up a Generator—Feeder Panel — Alternating-Current Switchboards—High-Tension Oil-Switches — Storage Batteries in Stations—Three-Phase Motors—Single-Phase Motors. | |
| Operation of Electric Railways | Page 115 |
| Power Taken by Cars—Road Tests of Cars—Economy in Power — Sliding and Spinning Wheels—Testing for Faults—Bond Testing —Motor-Coil Testing—Grounds—Burn-Outs—Defects of Armature Windings—Sparking at Commutator—Failure of Car to Start — Open-Circuit Tests—Short-Circuit Tests—Fuse-Blows—Armature and Field Tests for Grounds—Reversed Fields—Car Repair Shops. | |
| The Single-Phase Electric Railway | Page 137 |
| Commutator Type Single-Phase Motor—Advantages and Disadvantages of Single-Phase System—Lines in Operation. | |
| Index | Page 149 |