dog, 16, 78
doghouse, 17
dome, 21
drag, 13
duplex, 73
Edaville Railroad, 81
engineer, 9, 12-15, 21, 43, 87
fireman, 9-22
flimsy, 16
fusee, 18
galley, 70
gandy dancer, 82
gondolas, 52-53
grain cars, 54-55
greenball, 44-47
hand signals, 32-33
head end, 76
head-end crew, 13
helper engine, 18
“highball,” 11
hog, 10
hogger, 10
hoop, 14, 16
hoppers, 52-54
hot box, 42-44
hotshot, 13
hump, 26-28
hump rider, 29
icing machine, 45
inspection pit, 28
inspector, 29, 33, 34
Iron Horse, 10
journal box, 30, 42-44
king snipe, 82
link-and-pin, 32
livestock cars, 48-49
locomotives, 33-41
Mikado, 41
narrow-gauge trains, 79-81
old-fashioned trains, 86-89
“op,” 9
Owney, 78-79
Pacific, 41
parlor, 17
peddler car, 47
pig-pen, 10
pigs, 49
porter, 67
Pullman cars, 72-74
quilling, 87
radio telephone, 28, 43, 67
Railway Express car, 77-78
Railway Post Office car, 76-77
redball, 13
reefer, 44-47
refrigerator cars, 44-47
roller bearings, 44
roomette, 73
roundhouse, 10
running inspection, 43
sand, 20-21
sap, 20
section crew, 82-83
shack, 10
sheep, 48
signal flags, 18
signal lights, 14
slip-track, 37
snake, 31
snow plow, 85
snow train, 75
special cars, 56-58
squirrel cage, 17
station agent, 14-16
stewardess, 65
stinker, 43
stock cars, 48-49
stoker, 12
streamliner, 65-74
switch engine, 26, 28, 31
switch, 25
switchman, 31
tallow pot, 10
tank cars, 50-51
teakettle, 31
tell-tale, 61
torpedoes, 18
towerman, 26-28
track-pan, 38
trestles, 58
train order, 16
tunnels, 60
Vista-Dome, 68
waste, 42
yard goat, 31
[Illustration]
Many railroading people helped to make this book. Here are some to
whom the author and the artist want to give special thanks:
Margaret Gossett; Inez M. DeVille of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad;
the late Lee Lyles of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; C.
J. Corliss and A. C. Browning of the Association of American
Railroads; K. C. Ingram of the Southern Pacific Railroad; Eugene
DuBois of the Pennsylvania Railroad; the staff in the President’s
office, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; Frank J. Newell of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad; J. R. Sullivan
of the New York Central Railroad; Howard A. Moulton of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; and finally to Harry Hall of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford, through whose good offices
the artist and his children spent a memorable day on the Edaville
Railroad.
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$1.50
TRAINS AT WORK
_By_ Mary Elting
_Illustrated by_ David Lyle Millard
Tank cars, hoppers and gondolas; steam locomotives and Diesels;
engineers, brakemen and signalmen; diners and Pullmans and ski
trains--all are part of the story of TRAINS AT WORK.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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