Real Stories of the Rails
What was it like to work on the railroad? Find out in this special collection of 40 first-hand stories from the late steam and early diesel periods (1920-1990).
Stories include:
- The first night as a roundhouse foreman with no water, coal, or sand.
- Testing New Haven's newest electric locomotive on Hell Gate Bridge, in a hurricane!
- Clashing with the Assistant Road Foreman of Engines while re-railing an electric locomotive.
- Testing Rio Grande Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics on the New York Central.
- And much more!
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Real Stories of the Rails
Real Stories of the Rails
What was it like to work on the railroad? Find out in this special collection of 40 first-hand stories from the late steam and early diesel periods (1920-1990).
Stories include:
- The first night as a roundhouse foreman with no water, coal, or sand.
- Testing New Haven's newest electric locomotive on Hell Gate Bridge, in a hurricane!
- Clashing with the Assistant Road Foreman of Engines while re-railing an electric locomotive.
- Testing Rio Grande Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics on the New York Central.
- And much more!
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What was it like to work on the railroad? Find out in this special collection of 40 first-hand stories from the late steam and early diesel periods (1920-1990).
Stories include:
- The first night as a roundhouse foreman with no water, coal, or sand.
- Testing New Haven's newest electric locomotive on Hell Gate Bridge, in a hurricane!
- Clashing with the Assistant Road Foreman of Engines while re-railing an electric locomotive.
- Testing Rio Grande Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics on the New York Central.
- And much more!











