A Treasury of Railroad Folklore 4

A Treasury of Railroad Folklore
The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Man
published by Bonanza Books

Contents

1. Part One: Iron Horses and Iron Men
1. All In The Days Work
2. Headlines and Heroes
2. Part Two: Apprentice Years
1. Operation by Trial and Error
2. The Iron Horse Goes to War
3. The Advancing Frontier
4. Grand Strategy
3. Part Three: Vanishing Types
1. Boomer and Home Guard
2. Banditti of the Rails
3. Rail Stiffs
4. Cracker Barrel Railroads
4. Part Four: Main Line and Sidetrack
1. Tools and Tricks of the Trade
2. It Did Happen Here
3. Told in the Roundhouse
4. The Passenger Is Always Right
5. Part Five: BLues, Ballads, and Work Songs
1. Irish Immigrants and Western Emigrants
2. Negro Gang Work Songs
3. Brave Engineers
4. Hobo Songs
5. Blues and Love Songs
6. Appendix: Railroadiana