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I was actually looking for some railroad non-fiction which I read in the
1970's. It was a collection of short
accounts of railroad tragedies and tragedies averted by heroic children who
flagged down trains. That will have to
wait for another day.
Today's offering by American writer
Frank Hamilton Spearman is fiction, from 1900. (US
Edition) (UK
Edition)
The Five-Nine skimmed across the meadows without a break, and
pulled up a hundred feet from the burning bridge. It was an old Howe truss, and
snapped like popcorn as the flames bit into the rotten shed.
Pat Francis and his brakeman ran forward. Across the river
they could see half a dozen section-men chasing wildly about throwing impotent
buckets of water on the burning truss.
"We're up against it, Georgie," cried Francis.
"Not if we can get across before the bridge tumbles into the river,"
returned Sinclair.
"You don't mean you'd try it?"
"Would I? Wouldn't I? You know the orders. That bridge
is good for an hour yet. Pat, if you're game, I'll run it."
This is a
collection of short stories.
The author
was a banker, but clearly new his railroads.
If you are looking for something lost to time, look no further than the
steam train.
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