| Burlington - Boston or Bust | p. 1 |
| Early railroad plans for connecting the Atlantic seaboard with the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence | |
| Differences between Follett and Paine | |
| Chartering of the Champlain and Connecticut and the Vermont Central | |
| Fight between the two roads for financing | |
| Infiltration of "spies" into each other's organizations | |
| Construction of the Champlain and Connecticut | |
| Reorganization of Champlain and Connecticut into Rutland and Burlington Company | |
| The race for the mail contract | |
| Opening of the line and attendant festivities | |
| First schedules | |
| Connections with other roads | |
| Breakthrough at Burlington | p. 15 |
| Refusal of Vermont Central to connect at Burlington | |
| Vermont Central's connection with Vermont and Canada at Essex Junction, blocking the Rutland from a northern connection | |
| Entry of the Smiths in Vermont Central-Rutland fight | |
| Desperate plight of the Rutland for line-haul business | |
| Court actions | |
| Vermont Central finally cooperates, but direct northern connection for the Rutland still far in the future | |
| The Hunted Traps the Hunter | p. 23 |
| Reorganization of the Rutland and Burlington into the Rutland Railroad Company | |
| Eastern and western connections | |
| Connections with the new London Northern | |
| Rutland threats to the Vermont Central's dominance of northern connections | |
| Leasing of the Rutland by the Vermont Central | |
| Mr. Smith Takes the Throttle | p. 37 |
| Recession and financial troubles for the Vermont Central | |
| Connections to New York City | |
| More financial troubles | |
| Reorganization of the Vermont Central into the Central Vermont Railroad | |
| D and H interest in the Rutland | |
| Lease renewed | |
| Still more financial troubles | |
| Vermont Central control crumbles | |
| Delaware and Hudson stuck with the Rutland | |
| Charles Clement takes over | |
| The Old and Late Coming | p. 53 |
| The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain story | |
| Inception and construction of Northern Railroad of New York | |
| Lake Champlain trestle to connect with Vermont and Canada | |
| Steamboat opposition | |
| First refrigerator car | |
| Butter to Boston | |
| Ships to Chicago | |
| Reorganization to form OandLC | |
| Fenian War | |
| Acquisition by the Vermont Central | |
| The White Mountain Express | |
| Rail connections westward | |
| Loss of traffic to the NYC and HR | |
| Independent ownership returns | |
| Acquisition by the Rutland | |
| Branching Out | p. 75 |
| Clement builds a strong Rutland | |
| Acquisition of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain | |
| Trackage north through the Islands | |
| Southward extension to Chatham | |
| The railroad war | |
| The Bennington and Rutland | |
| The Lebanon Springs Railroads | |
| Your Move, Mr. Vanderbilt | p. 101 |
| Seward Webb, the Commodore's son-in-law, buys in | |
| Percival makes a killing | |
| The Ne-Ha-Se-Ne comes to Vermont | |
| The Rutland as Mr. Vanderbilt's pawn | |
| New equipment and prosperous times | |
| The New Haven becomes an owner, too | |
| The Panama Canal Act | |
| Prosperity goes with the ships | |
| Uncle Sam 'Takes Over | p. 125 |
| The USRA | |
| The War takes its toll | |
| New power | |
| Rehabilitation under the Transportation Act | |
| Henry Ford's threat | |
| Industrial Revolution, but not on the Rutland | |
| Solid trains of milk | |
| Buses to Chatham | |
| A good quarter-century | |
| Long Meet at Proctor | p. 135 |
| The flood of '27 | |
| Milk wreck and narrow escape | |
| The Green Mountain Flyer saved | |
| Clarendon and Pittsford to the rescue | |
| Damage and reconstruction | |
| Save the Rutland | p. 147 |
| The depression years | |
| Decadence and ultimate receivership | |
| Abandonment a possibility | |
| Wage cuts under protest | |
| "Save the Rutland" Club | |
| Public support of reorganization | |
| Shippers' pledges | |
| Taxes forgiven | |
| The Whippet | |
| Strike threat | |
| F.D.R. says no | |
| The War brings prosperity | |
| Reorganizational proposals | |
| The Barlow plan | |
| The Rutland Railway is born | |
| The New Era | p. 161 |
| Caverly steps in | |
| Scrapping of steam and dieselization | |
| New cars | |
| Chatham branch abandonment | |
| Passenger service dropped | |
| Efficiency drive | |
| Dividends paid | |
| The future looks good | |
| Requiem | p. 185 |
| Too much prosperity | |
| Four years of profit | |
| Labor unrest | |
| Adamant management | |
| Mounting costs and highway competition | |
| Two divisions from three? | |
| The strike of 1960 | |
| A year's reprieve | |
| The strike of 1961 | |
| Negotiations futile | |
| Application for abandonment | |
| ICC approval | |
| Labor blocks abandonment | |
| Epilogue - A New Era, But Not for the Rutland | p. 208 |
| Roster of Locomotives | p. 387 |
| Chronology of the Rutland Railroad | p. 426 |
| Operating Ratio 1900-1962 | p. 428 |
| Population of Major Towns 1960 | p. 430 |
| App. Bibliography | p. 430 |
| Index | p. 431 |
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