Confessions of a Railroad Signalman

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Confessions of a Railroad Signalman (1908)
by James Octavius Fagan

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3750230Confessions of a Railroad Signalman1908James Octavius Fagan

CONFESSIONS OF
A RAILROAD SIGNALMAN

A TYPICAL SMASH-UP

CONFESSIONS OF A
RAILROAD SIGNALMAN

BY

J. O. FAGAN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1908

Published October 1908

CONTENTS
I.	A Railroad Man to Railroad Men	1
II.	The Men	16
III.	The Management	47
IV.	Loyalty	69
V.	The Square Deal	95
VI.	The Human Equation	118
VII.	Discipline	149

ILLUSTRATIONS
A Typical Smash-Up		Frontispiece
A Head-On Collision		26
A Yard Wreck		52
A Typical Derailment		82
A Rear-End Collision		112
What Comes from a Misplaced Switch		132
Down an Embankment in Winter		150
The Aftermath		176
Acknowledgment is due to the proprietors of Collier’s Weekly and of the Boston Herald for their courteous loan of the photographs from which the above illustrations have been engraved.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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