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Railroaders, The By Stuart Leuthner Dust Jacket Copyright 1983 FIRST Edition
The Railroaders By Stuart Leuthner Dust Jacket Copyright 1983 FIRST Edition 152 Pages
vii Oliver Jensen
Foreword
viii Stuart Lent hner
Introduction
2 William H. Williamson Kansas City Southern Railroad/engineer
6 Joseph A. Morits New Haven Railroad/roundhouse foreman
10 Sylvester P. Doxsey Long Island Rail Road/engineer
14 John E. Tibbs Pullman Company/Pullman porter
18 Homer D. Lewis Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad/engineer
22 Alex A. Ramiccio Erie Railroad/track foreman
26 Carl A. Peterson New York Central Railroad/engineer
34 Chester F. Geaslen Louisville & Nashville Railroad/engineer
38 Irene M. Ingison New York Central Railroad/brakeman
44 Robert L. Thomas Seaboard Air Line Railroad/engineer
48 John W. Engelhardt Erie Railroad/engineer
52 Oswald S. Thorne New York Central Railroad/redcap
56 Clinton M. Graham Santa Fe Railroad/engineer
62 Cecil 0. Jones Canadian Pacific Railroad/dispatcher
66 Elmer L. Freeman Texas & Pacific Railroad/engineer
72 Herschel P. Boynton Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad/engineer
76 Mary V. Carmody New Haven Railroad/crew caller
80 Percy S. Smallin Delaware & Hudson Railroad/engineer
84 George E. Rudolph Pennsylvania Railroad/conductor
90 Oscar 0. Bennett New York, Ontario & Western Railroad/engineer
94 Andrew A. Barbera Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad/engineer
98 James J. Heyliger New York Central Railroad/chef
102 James A. Pheasant East Broad Top Railroad/engineer
106 George H. Kelch Norfolk & Western Railroad/engineer
110 Clarence R. Knight Baltimore & Ohio Railroad/engineer
116 Frank X. Lundy Railroad Post Office/clerk
120 Frank J. Bunker Canadian Pacific Railroad/engineer
124 Jervis Langdon, Jr. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad/president
130 William E. Tout Western Pacific Railroad/engineer
134 Hoke S. Rolison Central of Georgia Railroad/engineer
138 Leonard B. Dorman New Haven Railroad/engineer
144 Clyde S. Redfield Lehigh Valley Railroad/engineer
148 William J. Haley New York Central Railroad/stationmaster
At the beginning of this century, the railroads were the greatest-and most romantic-industry in America, with a work force of almost two million, the largest in the nation. The railroaders of that era-especially the engineer riding high in the cab of his steam locomotive-were the aristocrats of the road, and the railroads worked as well as they did because of them. As Stuart Leuthner writes in his introduction to The Railroaders, "There was only one way to do the job, whether you were running an engine pulling the Super Chief or replacing a rail on a branch line. You did it the right way:'
Sadly, the steam locomotive and the remarkable way of life it represented are gone now, but the last memories of this Golden Age of railroading have been gloriously captured in 180 photographs and over thirty vivid first-person narratives from engineers, dispatchers, conductors, firemen, redcaps, stationmasters, Pullman car porters, and chefs-the men and women who ran the trains in their heyday.
Leuthner spent ten years searching out these remarkable people. Sifting through hundreds of leads and crisscrossing the country to find them-sometimes arriving too late-he managed to rescue on tape a part of American history that had almost disappeared without a trace. Visiting with these railroad men and women, Leuthner listened as they spoke of their pride in their work, their love for the old locomotives and the uniqueness of life with the railroads, and their sadness at the coming of the diesel.
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