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Title: The boys' book of railroads
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Crump, Irving, 1887-1979
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The engineer is a very high type of railroad man. Hemust be, for to his care are entrusted human livesand millions of dollars in property
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The track walker is a trouble hunter, always searchingfor defects along the line. He walks a good manyweary miles a day IN THE CAB 37 the open switch and the caboose of the way-freight that was just crossing onto the siding. Did it, by George! was all that Tracy said,then solicitously he turned to Nixon. ******* It was the engineer from the locomotive of the way-freight who finished the run to W while Nixon, suffering from a fractured skullfrom a stone that dropped from a grade crossingbridge through the cab window, was left at thehospital in Blue Lake. That heroic achievement was all in a dayswork for Tracy, and he hardly ever mentionedthe episode to his friends in the roundhouse.To be sure he was made an engineer soon after-ward and perhaps his heroic action had a greatdeal to do with his quick promotion, but the factremains that he had accepted the perils of thesituation as part of his duty, and after the cli-max was passed he felt quite sure that his lifeas a railroad man was real

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