Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
by Henry Dawson
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dawson, Henry, 1826?-
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TF: Technology: Railroad engineering and operation
- Subject
- Railroads -- Personnel management
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 64815
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64815
- Release Date
- March 14, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TRIPS
- 2.DEDICATION.
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.RUNNING IN A FOG.
- 6.A CLOSE SHAVE.
- 7.A COLLISION.
- 8.COLLISION EXTRAORDINARY.
- 9.BURNING OF THE HENRY CLAY.
- 10.THE CONDUCTOR.
- 11.BRAVERY OF AN ENGINEER.
- 12.THE FIREMAN.
- 13.THE BRAKEMAN.
- 14.A DREAM IN THE "CABOOSE."
- 15.AN UNMITIGATED VILLAIN.
- 16.A PROPOSED RACE BETWEEN STEAM AND LIGHTNING.
- 17.AN ABRUPT "CALL."
- 18.THE GOOD LUCK OF BEING OBSTINATE.
- 19.HUMAN LIVES VS. THE DOLLAR.
- 20.FORTY-TWO MILES PER HOUR.
- 21.USED UP AT LAST.
- 22.A VICTIM OF LOW WAGES.
- 23.CORONERS' JURIES VS. RAILROAD MEN.
- 24.ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH RAILROAD MAN.
- 25.A BAD BRIDGE.
- 26.A WARNING.
- 27.SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.
- 28.LUDICROUS INCIDENTS.
- 29.EXPLOSIONS.
- 30.HOW A FRIEND WAS KILLED.
- 31.AN UNROMANTIC HERO.
- 32.THE DUTIES OF AN ENGINEER.
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