To Any Practical Man Who Has Had Any Experience in Handling Snow by the Old Method with Its Perfect Uselessness on Many Occasions, the Utility and Practicability of the Machine Here Shown Must Be Obvious (1882)

“A Pneumatic Snow Plow,” American Engineer 3 (January 7, 1881): 11.

The Engines Now Stood up to Their Throttles in Snow (1896)

R. Pitcher Woodward, Trains That Met in a Blizzard: A Composite Romance, Being a Chronicle of an Extraordinary Adventure of a Party of Twelve Men and One Woman in the Great American Blizzard March 12, 1888, Illustration by J. Carter Beard (New York: Salmagundi Publishing Company, 1896), frontispiece.

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.

Little Friend, I’m Thinking of Another Child Who Is in Much Greater Danger (1884)

Salvation for Children , vol 2 (Glasgow: The Publishing Office, 1884), frontispiece.

At the Moment the Train Fell, Certain People on Shore Had Seen Two Intensely Brilliant Sheets of Flame & Showers of Sparks (1911)

Alfred Spencer. Life of Harry Watts: Sixty Years Sailor and Diver. Illustrations by Oswald Crompton. (Sunderland: Hills and Company, 1911).

Freight Tunnels in Chicago (1904)

George W. Jackson. "Freight Tunnels in Chicago." The Independent. 57 (November 3, 1904).

Railroading, Turntable, & Arch (1867)

Jack Wing. The Great Chicago Lake Tunnel: The causes which led to its conception; the great undertaking; obstacles encountered; how the work was performed; launch of the crib, etc., together with sketches of the visits of several illustrious parties to the works, and a midnight train of cars beneath lake Michigan. Also, the successful completion of the great enterprise.. (Chicago: Jack Wing, 1867).

Tests Through Tunnels (1922)

Arno Carl Fieldner, Sidney H. Katz, Selwyne Perez Kinney. Test of gas masks and respirators for protection from locomotive smoke in railroad tunnels with analysies of tunnel atmospheres.(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922).

Masks for Railroad Tunnels (1922)

Arno Carl Fieldner, Sidney H. Katz, Selwyne Perez Kinney. Test of gas masks and respirators for protection from locomotive smoke in railroad tunnels with analysies of tunnel atmospheres. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922).