Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer, by Henry Dawson
IN THE
LIFE OF A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
NEW YORK: J. BRADBURN (Successor to M. Doolady), 49 WALKER STREET. FOLLETT, FOSTER & CO. 1863.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860. By FOLLETT, FOSTER & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio
TO THE RAILROAD MEN OF THE UNITED STATES, A CLASS WITH WHOM MY INTERESTS WERE LONG IDENTIFIED, AND WHO I EVER FOUND GENEROUS AND BRAVE, I DEDICATE THIS UNPRETENDING VOLUME.
THE AUTHOR.
Bravery and heroism have in all times been extolled, and the praises of the self-sacrificing men and women who have risked their own in the saving of others' lives, been faithfully chronicled.
Henry Dawson
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TRIPS
DEDICATION.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
RUNNING IN A FOG.
A CLOSE SHAVE.
A COLLISION.
COLLISION EXTRAORDINARY.
BURNING OF THE HENRY CLAY.
THE CONDUCTOR.
BRAVERY OF AN ENGINEER.
THE FIREMAN.
THE BRAKEMAN.
A DREAM IN THE "CABOOSE."
AN UNMITIGATED VILLAIN.
A PROPOSED RACE BETWEEN STEAM AND LIGHTNING.
AN ABRUPT "CALL."
THE GOOD LUCK OF BEING OBSTINATE.
HUMAN LIVES VS. THE DOLLAR.
FORTY-TWO MILES PER HOUR.
USED UP AT LAST.
A VICTIM OF LOW WAGES.
CORONERS' JURIES VS. RAILROAD MEN.
ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH RAILROAD MAN.
A BAD BRIDGE.
A WARNING.
SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.
LUDICROUS INCIDENTS.
EXPLOSIONS.
HOW A FRIEND WAS KILLED.
AN UNROMANTIC HERO.
THE DUTIES OF AN ENGINEER.