item: #1 of 18
          id: 16630
      author: Lynde, Francis
       title: Empire Builders
        date: None
       words: 87008
      flesch: 82
     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.
    keywords: adair; alicia; big; business; camp; car; colbrith; copah; day; denver; door; eckstein; end; engineer; extension; eyes; ford; frisbie; gallagher; general; good; great; half; hand; head; horse; kenneth; left; line; little; macmorrogh; man; men; miles; miss; moment; morning; mountain; nadia; new; night; north; office; pacific; penfield; plug; point; president; railroad; rest; room; saint; sidney; southwestern; stock; thing; thought; time; track; train; uncle; way; wire; word; work; york
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        item: #2 of 18
          id: 17572
      author: Warman, Cy
       title: The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories
        date: None
       words: 46572
      flesch: 82
     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.
    keywords: away; bradford; camp; car; chief; company; country; day; days; driver; end; engineer; englishman; face; factor; fire; friend; general; good; half; hand; head; jaquis; jewett; jones; life; line; man; men; moment; new; night; president; road; smith; story; superintendent; time; train; west; white; window; work; years; young
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        item: #3 of 18
          id: 19007
      author: Brady, Jasper Ewing
       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
        date: None
       words: 110880
      flesch: 81
     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.'
    keywords: big; boy; business; captain; chief; company; country; cut; day; days; despatcher; division; door; end; engine; engineer; evening; eyes; face; father; fire; general; girl; god; good; great; half; hand; head; home; hopkins; house; jim; john; kid; left; life; line; look; love; man; men; message; miles; mind; minutes; morning; mother; new; night; o'clock; office; open; operator; order; place; railroad; red; report; road; room; run; running; saw; story; telegraph; tell; thought; time; town; track; train; water; way; wire; woman; work; years
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        item: #4 of 18
          id: 20155
      author: Cooper, Courtney Ryley
       title: The White Desert
        date: None
       words: 72001
      flesch: 89
     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.
    keywords: answer; ba'teese; ba'tiste; barry; barry houston; bed; cabin; contract; day; door; eet; eyes; feet; flume; form; good; half; hand; head; help; houston; know; lake; life; lips; look; m'sieu; man; medaine; men; mill; moment; new; night; oui; place; road; robinette; saw; snow; tell; thayer; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman
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        item: #5 of 18
          id: 22497
      author: Munroe, Kirk
       title: Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy
        date: None
       words: 51359
      flesch: 77
     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.
    keywords: appleby; blake; boy; brakeman; car; conductor; door; face; fellow; freight; good; hand; joe; lad; left; locomotive; man; moment; new; night; number; place; president; railroad; robber; rod; rod blake; sheriff; sir; snyder; superintendent; time; tobin; track; train; way
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        item: #6 of 18
          id: 26892
      author: Robins, Edward
       title: Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War
        date: None
       words: 54508
      flesch: 85
     summary: George felt as if he were living ten years in that one instant. Macgreggor! Mac! whispered George; it's I, George Knight.
    keywords: andrews; boy; car; chattanooga; confederate; dog; door; engine; face; general; george; good; hand; hare; house; jenks; leader; look; macgreggor; man; men; party; right; river; room; station; tender; thought; time; track; train; waggie; watson; way
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        item: #7 of 18
          id: 28292
      author: Chapman, Allen
       title: Ralph on the Engine; Or, The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail
        date: None
       words: 47592
      flesch: 87
     summary: Hello, Ralph Fairbanks, piped a happy little voice as Ralph and Zeph entered the restaurant. What's this in his hand? inquired Ralph.
    keywords: boy; car; day; engineer; evans; fairbanks; farrington; fellow; find; fireman; good; griscom; joe; junction; line; locomotive; men; night; place; railroad; ralph; run; slump; stanley; time; train; trevor; wagon; way; work; zeph
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        item: #8 of 18
          id: 29572
      author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
       title: Whispering Smith
        date: None
       words: 97151
      flesch: 88
     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.
    keywords: away; bend; bill; bucks; cache; country; creek; dancing; day; dicksie; division; door; dunning; eyes; face; george; good; half; hand; hat; head; help; horse; kennedy; lance; left; life; line; look; man; marion; mccloud; medicine; men; moment; mountains; new; railroad; ranch; rebstock; ride; riding; right; river; rode; room; run; saddle; sang; sinclair; smith; stone; story; table; tell; thing; time; trouble; valley; water; way; whispering; whispering smith; work; young
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        item: #9 of 18
          id: 33399
      author: Lynde, Francis
       title: A Romance in Transit
        date: None
       words: 40807
      flesch: 83
     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?
    keywords: agent; brockway; burton; car; day; denver; dinner; door; eyes; father; fleetwell; gertrude; good; hand; little; man; miss; moment; mrs; party; passenger; platform; president; private; right; tadmor; thought; time; train; vennor; yes
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        item: #10 of 18
          id: 33634
      author: Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
       title: The Night Operator
        date: None
       words: 95303
      flesch: 84
     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.
    keywords: away; beezer; bradley; cab; carleton; chance; cloud; cut; dan; day; division; donkin; door; durgan; end; engine; eyes; face; flannagan; good; hand; hawkeye; head; job; kid; kind; little; look; macquigan; man; master; mcgrew; mechanic; men; moment; mrs; night; noodles; nulty; old; owsley; red; regan; room; roundhouse; run; sammy; sammy durgan; sort; station; thing; thought; time; tis; toddles; track; train; walton; way; work; years
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        item: #11 of 18
          id: 33947
      author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
       title: The Nerve of Foley, and Other Railroad Stories
        date: None
       words: 39886
      flesch: 87
     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.
    keywords: bartholomew; boy; bucks; cab; callahan; dad; day; east; end; engine; engineer; fellow; fireman; foley; georgie; good; head; line; little; man; mcwilliams; men; neighbor; new; night; passenger; run; running; sankey; siclone; sinclair; time; track; train; way; west
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        item: #12 of 18
          id: 34365
      author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
       title: Held for Orders: Being Stories of Railroad Life
        date: None
       words: 60118
      flesch: 84
     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.
    keywords: aloysius; bend; big; blackburn; bridge; bucks; bullhead; callahan; car; chris; dave; day; delaroo; despatcher; division; doubleday; duffy; end; engine; face; good; hailey; hand; head; house; jimmie; like; line; mail; maje; man; martin; mcterza; medicine; men; neighbor; new; night; number; order; river; run; sampson; saw; shockley; special; spider; superintendent; time; track; train; water; way; west; yard
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        item: #13 of 18
          id: 37038
      author: Hill, John A. (John Alexander)
       title: Stories of the Railroad
        date: None
       words: 51052
      flesch: 84
     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.'
    keywords: billy; burrows; captain; day; end; engine; eyes; face; father; girl; good; gun; half; hand; head; home; hopkins; house; jim; john; kid; letter; life; lige; look; love; man; men; miles; mother; new; right; road; saw; story; tell; thought; time; water; way; woman; work; years
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        item: #14 of 18
          id: 38969
      author: Chapman, Allen
       title: Ralph, the Train Dispatcher; Or, The Mystery of the Pay Car
        date: None
       words: 55540
      flesch: 85
     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.
    keywords: adair; business; car; chapter; dispatcher; engineer; face; fairbanks; fellow; fireman; fogg; glen; glidden; good; hand; home; left; line; little; locomotive; look; man; men; message; new; northern; office; old; operator; palmer; pay; railroader; ralph; ralph fairbanks; right; road; room; run; slump; special; superintendent; time; train; way; work; young; zeph
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        item: #15 of 18
          id: 40607
      author: Hughes, Rupert
       title: Excuse Me!
        date: None
       words: 62537
      flesch: 84
     summary: We'll claim it's our section till Mallory and Mrs. Mallory come. Good morning, Mrs. Mallory, snapped Mrs. Whitcomb.
    keywords: anne; ashton; berth; car; chapter; come; conductor; couple; dear; dog; door; eyes; fosdick; going; good; hand; head; husband; ira; jimmie; kathleen; lathrop; left; little; look; love; mallory; man; marjorie; men; minister; mrs; new; passengers; porter; right; room; round; seat; smoking; snoozleums; temple; time; train; voice; way; wedgewood; wellington; whitcomb; wife; woman; young
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        item: #16 of 18
          id: 55624
      author: Stevenson, Burton Egbert
       title: The Young Train Dispatcher
        date: None
       words: 80236
      flesch: 85
     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.
    keywords: allan; boy; company; conductor; day; dispatcher; door; end; engineer; eyes; face; fer; freight; git; good; hand; head; instant; jack; jed; jim; left; look; man; mary; moment; nevins; nolan; office; open; operator; order; place; right; road; schofield; signal; station; story; thought; time; track; train; trainmaster; way; west; work; | |
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        item: #17 of 18
          id: 5901
      author: Pinkerton, A. Frank
       title: Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
        date: None
       words: 57378
      flesch: 87
     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.
    keywords: bernard; crime; detective; door; dyke darrel; elliston; express; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; hand; harper; harry; lianor; life; look; man; men; nell; nell darrel; night; place; professor; room; ruggles; scarlet; time; train; voice; way; woman; young
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        item: #18 of 18
          id: 60787
      author: Farnham, Bob
       title: Old Shag
        date: None
       words: 759
      flesch: 94
     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.
    keywords: man; stop
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