A “Fusee” Is a Paper Cone Containing Enough Red Fire, Inextinguishable by Wind or Rain, to Burn Exactly Five Minutes (1892)

Kirk Monroe, “Harold and the Railway Signals,” St. Nicholas 20, (December 1892): 124.

If Young America Wants to Fly, He Don’t Care Who Pays for the Wings (1885)

John McDowell Leavitt, Kings of Capital and Knights of Labor (New York: C.V. Le Craw and Company, 1885), 172.

Union Made (1911)

Larned Carter and Company advertisement, Plumbers, Gas, and Steam Fitters Journal 16 (August 1911): 1.

What Is the Measure of Work Our Steam-Horse Has to Do? (1876)

J. Scott Russell, “The Service of Steam,” Good Words for 1876 (December 1876): 825. 

The Principles of Dispatching Trains by Orders (1885)

J.J. Turner, The Telegraph as Applied to Train Movement (Indianapolis: Hasselman-Journal Company Printers, 1885): frontispiece.

He Slipped along the Footplate & Regained His Whole Carriage & Compartment without His Absence Being Noted (1913)

Richard Parker, The Whip: Novelized from Cecil Raleigh’s Great Drury Lane Melodrama,  Illustrated with pictures from the play,  (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1913), frontispiece.  

He: “Put out Your Hand, Darling” (1927)

He: “Put out Your Hand, Darling.” Life 90 (July 1927): 11.

The Engine-Driver Neither Saw the Flag nor Attempted to Stop His Heavy Train (1895)

V.M Garshine, translated from Russian by Jessie Mackenzie, “The Railway Signal,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Review 40 (November 1895): 581.

Until the Coupling Snapped, Cape Colony, South Africa (1911)

“Train Falls Many Feet into a Ravine,” Popular Mechanics (August 1911): 273.

We Could Feel the Engine Wheels Rise and Fall on the Twisting Rail (1895)

Cy Warman, “Railroading over an Earthquake: An American Engine-Driver’s Strange Experience of an Engine in Europe,” McClure’s Magazine V (October 1895): 417.

The Texas Express Robbed at Gaddshill (1882)

Train and Bank Robbers of the West. A Romantic but Faithful Story of Bloodshed and Plunder, Perpetrated by Missouri's Daring Outlaws: A Thrilling Story of the Adventures and Exploits of Frank and Jesse James (Chicago: Belford Clark and Company, 1882), 162.

Eighty Miles an Hour: 590 of the Burlington Road on the Run out from Chicago (1899)

Cleveland Moffett, “At Ninety Miles an Hour,” McClure’s Magazine 12 (April 1899): 485.