Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Foreword vii
5. Publisher’s note xiv
6. Youth
7. 1 Trackside Childhood 7
8. 2 From Newsboy to Roundhouse: Starting to Work 29
9. Fireman I
10. 3 Learning to Fire 49
11. 4 Life along the Rails 67
12. 5 My Mentor on the Road 89
13. Fireman II
14. 6 At the Rat Hole Flashing the Door 107
15. 7 Old Heads, Rails, and Boomers 125
16. 8 Railroad Hazards and Wrecks 145
17. Engineer
18. 9 Engineer on the Rio Grande 173
19. 10 Running the Utah Trains 193
20. 11 Life on the Utah Railway 223
21. Epilogue 241
22. Index 245