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Night in an Outfit Car
Jun 1, 2000·Railroad Stories: The Way It Was·Classic Trains

Night in an Outfit Car

The silver bunk car marked “D&RGW” rests on the stockyard spur next to Cisco siding, windows open to the night…

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Rookie Fireman’s Friend
Jun 1, 2000·Railroad Stories: The Way It Was·Classic Trains

Rookie Fireman’s Friend

In the 1940’s, a rookie Southern Pacific locomotive fireman was always glad to see on the board that he had…

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That’s Railroading
Jun 1, 2000·Railroad Stories: The Way It Was·Classic Trains

That’s Railroading

In the winter of 1943, I was assigned to the firemen’s extra board at Des Moines Iowa, on the Rock…

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A Little Nervous Calculating
Mar 1, 2000·Railroad Stories: The Way It Was·Classic Trains

A Little Nervous Calculating

On the Norfolk & Western, when you qualified for passenger service as a fireman or engineer, the Road Forman of…

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Rough Handling
Mar 1, 2000·Railroad Stories: The Way It Was·Classic Trains

Rough Handling

My father, Richard Henderson, was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a shop clerk in the motive-power department at Toledo,…

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