Confessions of a Railroad Signalman
CONFESSIONS OF
A RAILROAD SIGNALMAN
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| A TYPICAL SMASH-UP |
CONFESSIONS OF A
RAILROAD SIGNALMAN
BY
J. O. FAGAN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1908
COPYRIGHT 1908 BY J. O. FAGAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1908
| I. | A Railroad Man to Railroad Men | 1 |
| II. | The Men | 16 |
| III. | The Management | 47 |
| IV. | Loyalty | 69 |
| V. | The Square Deal | 95 |
| VI. | The Human Equation | 118 |
| VII. | Discipline | 149 |
| A Typical Smash-Up | Frontispiece | |
| A Head-On Collision | 26 | |
| A Yard Wreck | 52 | |
| A Typical Derailment | 82 | |
| A Rear-End Collision | 112 | |
| What Comes from a Misplaced Switch | 132 | |
| Down an Embankment in Winter | 150 | |
| The Aftermath | 176 | |
Acknowledgment is due to the proprietors of Collier’s Weekly and of the Boston Herald for their courteous loan of the photographs from which the above illustrations have been engraved. | ||
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