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id: 60787
author: Farnham, Bob
title: Old Shag
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words: 759
sentence: 58
flesch: 94
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summary:
  He was a pretty ordinary little guy, except for a wild, shaggy head of hair. It made no stop between Chicago and New York except for water and fuel.


id: 33947
author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
title: The Nerve of Foley, and Other Railroad Stories
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words: 39886
sentence: 2374
flesch: 87
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summary:
  As she stood, too, when old man Sinclair took her on the Acton run, she was the best illustration I have ever seen of the adage that one can never tell from the looks of a frog how far it will jump. I had never happened, it is true, to hear of Bartholomew Mullen in the department of motive power; but the impression the name gave me was of a monstrous fellow; big as Neighbor, or old man Sankey, or Dad Hamilton.


id: 33399
author: Lynde, Francis
title: A Romance in Transit
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words: 40807
sentence: 2379
flesch: 83
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summary:
  And Mr. Brockway knew his rôle and played it well--if, indeed, it were a rôle, which she very much doubted. What had become of Mr. Brockway since their Mormon day?


id: 17572
author: Warman, Cy
title: The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories
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words: 46572
sentence: 2257
flesch: 82
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summary:
  The reader is not expected to believe this red tale; but if he will take the trouble to write the General Manager of the Père Marquette Railroad, State of Michigan, U.S.A. enclosing stamped envelope for answer, I make no doubt that good man, having by this time recovered from the dreadful shock occasioned by the wreck, will cheerfully verify the story even to the minutest detail. In any other country, to other men, this would be exciting, but it's all in the day's work with Smith and Jaquis.


id: 28292
author: Chapman, Allen
title: Ralph on the Engine; Or, The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail
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words: 47592
sentence: 3684
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Hello, Ralph Fairbanks, piped a happy little voice as Ralph and Zeph entered the restaurant. What's this in his hand? inquired Ralph.


id: 22497
author: Munroe, Kirk
title: Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy
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words: 51359
sentence: 2226
flesch: 77
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summary:
  I am Rod Blake, one of Tobin's trainmen, and if you don't quit bothering me with your stupidity and go to work, I'll pitch you out of this cab! shouted Rod savagely, in a tone that betrayed the intensity of his nervous excitement. For the next six hours poor Rod wandered about the station and the railroad yard, with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, feeling about as lonely and uncomfortable as it is possible for a healthy and naturally light-hearted boy to feel.


id: 37038
author: Hill, John A. (John Alexander)
title: Stories of the Railroad
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words: 51052
sentence: 2345
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Gunderson, old man, how are you? She had no sooner gone than Cy Nash, my conductor, commenced to giggle--'Made a mash on the flyest woman in town,' he tittered; 'ain't a blood in town but what would give his head for your boots, old man; that's Mabel Verne--owns the Odeon dance hall, and the Tontine, in Carson.'


id: 26892
author: Robins, Edward
title: Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War
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words: 54508
sentence: 3382
flesch: 85
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summary:
  George felt as if he were living ten years in that one instant. Macgreggor! Mac! whispered George; it's I, George Knight.


id: 5901
author: Pinkerton, A. Frank
title: Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
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words: 57378
sentence: 4019
flesch: 87
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summary:
  At the open door he met Dyke Darrel face to face! And that? DEATH TO YOU! Straightening to his full height after uttering the three terrible words, Martin Skidway snatched a heavy iron bolt from the ground, that had lain long beside the track, and raised it above the head of helpless Dyke Darrel.


id: 34365
author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
title: Held for Orders: Being Stories of Railroad Life
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words: 60118
sentence: 3221
flesch: 84
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summary:
  They sent him up as night man to Rat River, the meanest place on the whole system. That they were older men in the order of promotion was cold comfort--Aloysius felt crowded out.


id: 38969
author: Chapman, Allen
title: Ralph, the Train Dispatcher; Or, The Mystery of the Pay Car
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words: 55540
sentence: 3820
flesch: 85
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summary:
  In breaking the wood to mend the fire the operator had split the piece transversely removing a part of a written line, but to his amazement Ralph could make out these words: Send word to Ralph Fairbanks, Stanley Junction, that Glen Palmer is-- The remainder of this queer message was missing--ashes in the depot stove. Mr. Little insisted on his hired man hitching up the family horse to drive Ralph home.


id: 40607
author: Hughes, Rupert
title: Excuse Me!
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words: 62537
sentence: 4192
flesch: 84
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summary:
  We'll claim it's our section till Mallory and Mrs. Mallory come. Good morning, Mrs. Mallory, snapped Mrs. Whitcomb.


id: 20155
author: Cooper, Courtney Ryley
title: The White Desert
extension: .txt
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words: 72001
sentence: 5081
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Can you--will you forgive me? Boyishly Barry Houston reached forward and drew away a strand of hair that had strayed from place, a spirit of venture in his manner, a buoyant tone in his voice. To be explicit, my name is Barry Houston, son of the late William K. Houston.


id: 55624
author: Stevenson, Burton Egbert
title: The Young Train Dispatcher
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words: 80236
sentence: 4645
flesch: 85
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summary:
  So it came to pass, a few days later, that the postman mounted the steps to the little Welsh cottage and left there a tiny envelope addressed to Mr. Allan West. Well, sir, Jack began, I waited fer Allan this evenin' t' tell him that Nolan had come back, an' when he told me that Nolan had been out here-- Nolan out here? interrupted the trainmaster, and Allan related the conversation of the night before.


id: 16630
author: Lynde, Francis
title: Empire Builders
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words: 87008
sentence: 4851
flesch: 82
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summary:
  And last summer Mr. Ford spent a good part of his time over there--also hunting, so he said. Mr. Ford said he was going hunting, and that's what we'll say, if anybody asks us.


id: 33634
author: Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
title: The Night Operator
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words: 95303
sentence: 4775
flesch: 84
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summary:
  There wasn't any hurry; he would give Regan time to drill through the safe, and perhaps even let the master mechanic get the money before giving the alarm--Noodles bitterly bemoaned the fact that he would have to give the alarm at all and let anybody else in on it, but, owing to the fact that he had been unable to finance a revolver with which to hold up the master mechanic red-handed and cover himself with glory at the same time, there appeared to be nothing else to do. Many of these have lived their lives, done their work, passed on, and left no record, barely a memory, behind them, as other men in other places and in other spheres of work have done and always will do; but others, for this or that, by circumstance, or personality, or opportunity, have woven around themselves the very legends and traditions of their environment.


id: 29572
author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
title: Whispering Smith
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words: 97151
sentence: 6274
flesch: 88
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summary:
  In handling a wreck Sinclair was a marvel among mountain men. Then the master of mountain men, grizzled and brown, turned his eyes again to the bed.


id: 19007
author: Brady, Jasper Ewing
extension: .txt
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words: 110880
sentence: 4992
flesch: 81
cache: cache/19007.txt
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title:
  Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers

summary:
  Gunderson, old man, how are you? She had no sooner gone than Cy Nash, my conductor, commenced to giggle--'Made a mash on the flyest woman in town,' he tittered; 'ain't a blood in town but what would give his head for your boots, old man; that's Mabel Verne--owns the Odeon dance hall, and the Tontine, in Carson.'


