Confessions of a Railroad Signalman

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Confessions of a Railroad Signalman, by James O. (James Octavius) Fagan

A TYPICAL SMASH-UP
CONFESSIONS OF A RAILROAD SIGNALMAN
BY J. O. FAGAN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1908
COPYRIGHT 1908 BY J. O. FAGAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October 1908 SECOND IMPRESSION
Acknowledgment is due to the proprietors of Collier’s Weekly and of the Boston Herald for their courteous loan of the photographs from which the above illustrations have been engraved.

CONFESSIONS OF A RAILROAD SIGNALMAN
Considering the nature and intent of the following essays on the safety problem on American railroads, some kind of a foreword will not be out of place. As much as possible I wish to make this foreword a personal presentation of the subject. But in order to do this in a satisfactory manner, it will be necessary to take a preliminary survey of the situation and of the topics in which we, as railroad employees, are all personally interested.