From the Throttle to the President's Chair

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Excerpt from From the Throttle to the President's Chair: A Story of American Railway Life It had been raining two days and nights, and there were no signs of clearing up. The Irondale and Ofalca Night Express lay on the siding, just west of Little Gypsy Creek, , waiting for the down mail, which was over-due nearly half an hour. From Irondale to the Junction was precisely forty miles. Before the Night Express headed up the road, a telegram was handed to Matt Fields, the engineer, and another to Calvin Twomey, the conductor, notifying them that the mail had just left the Junction, and the two trains were to meet at the switch near Little Gypsy Creek. This was about one-third of the distance from Irondale, and the Express, if no accident prevented, ought to reach it a quarter of an hour ahead of the mail. As a rule, the latter steamed into Irondale a few minutes before the Express left for its long run eastward, but, as I have said, it was late that night, and the Express was ordered to run to the switch, there leave the main track and wait for the mail to pass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.