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TRIPS
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
DEDICATION.
——
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.
PREFACE.
Bravery and heroism have in all times been extolled, and the praisesof the self-sacrificing men and women who have risked their own in thesaving of others' lives, been faithfully chronicled.
Railroad men, too long looked upon as the rougher kind of humanity,have been the subjects of severe condemnation and reproach upon theoccurrence of every disaster, while their skill, bravery and presenceof mind have scarcely ever found a chronicler. The writer ventures toassert, that if the record of their noble deeds were all gathered, andpresented in their true light, it would be found that these rough, andweather-worn men were entitled to as high a place, and a fame as lofty,as has been allotted to any other class who cope with disaster.
It has been the aim of the writer, who has shared their dangerous lot,to present a few truthful sketches, trusting that his labor may tendto a better knowledge of the dangers that are passed, by those whodrive, and ride behind the Iron Horse. If he shall succeed inthis, and make the time of his reader not appear misspent, he will besatisfied.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Running in a Fog, | 11 |
| A Close Shave, | 17 |
| A Collision, | 29 |
| Collision Extraordinary, | 37 |