Workin on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steam
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The mighty railroad occupied the undisputed center of American public life. The railroad founded cities populated states created governments destroyed the wilderness. It was the great speculator the political tyrant the recruiter of immigrants the opener of new lands the cynosure of poets and pioneers the symbol of adventure opportunity escape and power. . . . Yet the railroad man for all his historic importance his archetypal stature and his economic power has achieved only a minor position in American literature.--from Workin on the Railroad In Workin on the Railroad Richard Reinhardt presents firsthand accounts from engineers brakemen porters conductors section men roundhouse workers switchmen telegraphers surveyors and other neglected pioneers who worked the railroad during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Age of Steam.
