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Down the Track Anthology Rail Tales by Ruth T Eckes Soft Cover SIGNED
Down the Track Anthology Rail Tales by Ruth T Eckes
Soft Cover
Pages 406
Signed by Author
Copyright 2001
Table Of Contents
Nine Days On A Troop Train By Warren Wing1
When I Think Of Lester,
I Remember Mama By Dorothy Saunders Purser 12
Paradise (Lester) - 1930 To 1940 By Clayton Mclean17
Lester By John Brown29
Trilby Restaurant By L. A. Bailey33
A Sunday Drive By 7ackchristensen38
The Call Boy Or Call Girl By Margaret Poindexter 42
A Train Ride In The Sixties By Carolyn Starlet 44
Quick Temporary Fixes Ed Eckes46
Yard Office Blindman's Bluff By O. B. Harvey48
Third Trick By G. G. Smith50
Main Street Crossing Guardian By Irene Vokich 'Thompson51
The Crossing Bell (Author Unknown)54
"A Helluva Way To Put Out A Fire" By Elliott Brown55
Ghost Train? By Frances Goodman Wallace56
An Auditor From The Past By Gary Ostlund57
My Expense Account By Frank W Cline59
World War Ii Kids Working
On The Railroad By Jacob C. Johannesen60
Warpath Rock - 1933 By William H Myers65
The Way It Was By Cecil- W Geelhart67
Life In An Outfit Car By Tina Geelhart71
Job Hopping Through The Years By Harold Speer75
A Young Telegrapher By Games Irvin 83
Railway Express Memoirs By Joe Fox 86
Thirty-Eight Years Of Memories By Lester To 88
The Packard And The Telegraph By Ralph B. Neil95
A Red Haired High Jumper By Chuck Daley97
Practical Jokes By Dave Sprau99
A Watch On The Erie By Thomas J. Mcconkey102
Blizzard Conditions By Kenneth Leavens106
Unrelenting Fear By Mackie Moser 107
My Life On The Railroad By Wayne Ferrier 110
The Watch By Randall Marquis 115
Running Late On A Nasty Day By Goy W. Emmons 117
A Family Of Railroad Telegraphers By William Phipps Brien 119
A Potato Peeler's Dining Car Memories By Dona& _Johnson123
The Worst Of The Best By Shirley Guerci 124
It Rained Permalube And Snowed Kotex By Vern Salomonsen 127
Railroad Baby By Madge Peterson Spear 128
Boxcar Families By Howard Mostrom 131
A Tribute To A Good Worker (A Mostrom Family Railroad Memory.)132
Boxcar Memories By John Robertson 133
My Adventures On The Milwaukee Railroad By Ed Stott 135
The New Agent Is A Lady! By Ruth Trueblood Eckes149
Don't Smile By Louise Crone150
Railroad Remembrances By Dave Steinhoff153
Trouble Shooter By Harold A. Lawrence162
Not Enough Hands By Fred Folsom164
Soni-Rail Days By Dick Carlson166
Cedarburg Depot On The C&Nw Railroad By Fred Linn 169
My Dream By Richard Ruby172
Home From The War By Dallas, Barnard176
Bootleggers By Leah Rice Carrell 178
"Lucky Mckean" By Ralph B. Neil 180
Telegrapher Experiences From The Past By Lenore Benson 182
"Suitcase" Johnson's Railroad Memories By Don Johnson187
Riding The Rails In Europe By Eloise Whittlesey 191
First Trip On The Everett Line By G. Freeman 194
It Was Like No Other Tuesday By F. A. (Bud) Godin 196
Speculation 'By Robert 9. Mcinnis 199
Enlightenment By Robert.. Mcinnis200
Slam Dunk! By Mackie Moser201
The Evil Eye By Ralph B. Neil"206
"We Don't Want Women Here!" By9ohenderson207
The Monroe-Saugatuck Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Railroad 'By Don Devendorf208
How Do You Pick A Career? By Robert L. Duvall209
Radio Static? By Bill Harshfield 212
Denied Guilt? By Bill Harshfield215
Milwaukee Line,
Part Of Snohomish History By Allen Miller217
Walked On Water By O. B. Harvey220
Oh, Oh! By John Haakonson 222
Running The Frisco Railroad By Cly. March223
I Remember Mike Mola At Woodinville 'By Lenore Benson227
Remembering Woodinville Days By Lenore Benson229
Western Maryland Head-On Collision By William H. Myers232
Steamin' By Ralph B. Neil241
Growing Up In The Railroad Town Of Lester By Myles Stock242
Eugene Brochu By Y. P. Vermette246
Student Fireman By John O. Stanley248
Try Blink, Blink By Claude Gambrel! 250
Karma Up-Side The Head By Allan Manson251
Roads Or Railroads? By Wiles Grafe252
Failed Journal By Toe Laporte254
My First Rail Experience By5ohnrobertson255
The Everett Turn - 1954 By Edward" Ray257
Train Wreck At Louder, Illinois By Harry A. 'Turner259
The Night Of The 305 By L. A. Bailey260
Choo! Choo! Snore! Snore! By Ai Zhonghua263
The Rise And Fall Of Dots And Dashes And
Clicks And Clacks By Pat West269
Adventures On The
Milwaukee Railroad By Perry _Lay Singer272
A Broken Rail Tale By Ralph B. Neil274
Another "Rail" Tale By Ralph B. Ned275
A Very Hot Experience By . H Wirachowsky277
Looking Back By A.H Wirachowsky278
A Tiger On My Hands By Alvah R Ding279
Postal Telegraph - 1927 By Alvah R Ping280
Origin Of A Telegrapher By Alvah R. Ping281
Tank Car Blast In Wenatchee By Joe Laporte282
Stevens Pass Run-A-Way 'By Joe Laporte283
A Little Railroad Background By Joe Dores285
All Aboard By Elwin D. Purington290
That Lingering Sound By Elwin D. Purington 291
Pueblo To Salida On The D&Rgw Railroad By Ed Trump297
West Wayfreight By John O. Stanley301
Railroading In The 1930s By L. 4n. Le Fevre302
A Window From The Past By Earle W. Thorne304
Hiding Out By Derald I. (Tyke) Leen307
Canadian Pacific's Experimental
Engine Number 8000 By John 0. ~0llie" Stanley308
Back On The Railroad By Jack R. Sage310
Hoboes By Jack R, Sage 311
"That'll Do" And Other Signs By Dave Sprau312
Letters Home When I Was Seventeen Pat O'farrell. 315
A Hardy Barred Rock By Eldon E. Johnson321
Christmas Travel, 1944 By Erma Battenburg321
Plowing Snow On Stampede Pass By A. H Wirachowsky323
Dad's Talent By Ruth Trueblood- Eckes324
Lester, U.S.A. By N. Dotson326
Early Michigan Railroads By Don Devendorf328
Crooked River, Saskatchewan
- Early Forties By O. B. Harvey329
The Blue Mountain Express By William H. Myers331
Cometh The Ice Man By Vern Salomonsen332
The Evolution Of Buckley By Edgar L. Robinson 334
The Blake Family And The Railroads By Robert Wallace Blake336
Twentieth Century Railroading
A Personal Recollection -- By Don Devendorf340
Flagman Duties And Ww Ii
Trains Over Stampede Pass By Tom Strand343
Blizzard Conditions On The
Rock Island Railroad By Don Johnson346
When In Doubt Don't Ask By O. B. Harvey347
Derby Day By Steve Leeson349
A Gift That Kept On Giving By Vern Salomonsen352
Down At The Old Depot By Stella Steele354
Short Circuit? By O. B. Harvey355
Tricky Derailments By Torn Strand356
The Steam Era By Norman Montgomery358
Unusual Occurrence By Richard D. Leary360
Herding Sheep On The
South Bend Branch By Daniel-E. Ritchey360
A Long Trip By Tom Strand362
A Long Nap By Edward Ray363
Smyrna, Tennessee By Mark S. Womack. 365
Nose Of The Devil (Ecuador Rail Trip) By Lee Johnson368
My Rail Travel Through The Years By Robert Wallace Blake369
Frozen North To Sunny South
And All Points In Between By Mackie Moser374
The Evolution Of The Caboose By Tom Strand376
Memories Of The Lester Logger By Blackie Moser378
Roundhouse Adrenaline By John O. "011ie" Stanley382
Stork Causes Excitement On Train 'By 'Thomas Chapman384
A Clerk's Memory By Madge Moak385
A Kindly Refrain From Flushing
(Do Not Pp On The Np) Author Unknown386
Operations On Canadian
Pacific's "Big Hill" 'By John O. "0llie" Stanley387
The Wreck Of The 1803 By Bob Heiman392
Pusher Service On The
Canadian Pacific Railroad 'By John O. "0llie" Stanley394
Impossible! By5ohno."011ie"Stanley400
The Incredible Near Miss By Ralph B. Neil 402
Little Johnny By O. B. Harvey 405
INTRODUCTION
"One day you wake up and you're eighty years old." My dad - a 40-year Northern Pacific Railway veteran - said to me recently.
His point - if not readily obvious - is that time passes; its contents forever lost to eternity. Not to fear! Ruth Eckes has again risen to the occasion and has done something about this thief in the night by capturing precious railroad memories from the railroaders who lived each moment in her latest anthology, DOWN THE TRACK.
If one really stops and thinks about railroading and its time transcending `mythos,' one quickly realizes that these vignettes are crucial to preserving the legacy of the greatest success story of all: the American railroad system and its millions of dedicated employees! Because day-to-day, railroading was (and still is) about people, not steam engines, train orders or boxcars. Engineers notched the throttles on F9s. Telegraphers pounded brass in relay offices 24 hours a day. Dispatchers issued form 19s and train crews fulfilled those good `meets' at Wymer and Kanaskat at 3:00 in the morning in blinding snowstorms.
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