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)

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