Set Up Running

Despite the graphic depiction of on-the-job problems and irregular hours away from home, accounts of steam railroading often seem adventurous, even romantic, to those who have never toiled in midsummer heat for sixteen hours in the cab of a steam engine. John W. Orr's Set Up Running will not disappoint the reader of railroadiana. The title comes from "making a [seniority] date" as an engineman/locomotive engineer after one's promotion to that craft. The fireman's craft also receives ample attention, including the arduous labor of hand-firing a heavy Mikado freight locomotive. Orr covers with easy awareness the rules of thumb and tricks of the trade for these two functionally interrelated crafts

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