Life Along the Tracks

Life Along the TracksLife Along the Tracks Candid Stories from a Career Railroader I was working as a gandy, long hot hours with a shovel, lining bar, occasionally a brush hook and other instruments of extreme physical labor, the normal accoutrements of my profession. At 17, the exalted positions of brakeman or fireman were unobtainable, and engineer conductor unthinkable. So begins Life Along the Tracks, a new hard cover book of 225 pages containing 46 short stories

Depot plans were mirrored to allow the waiting room to be placed on the side which people were most likely to approach from

Less than carload lots originating from the town were handled to the depot and then to a boxcar

Nominal capacity was 100

to simplify production of new equipment

The building could also be used as a garage or garden shed on properties near the railroad

Examples of this well-documented structure survive to this day

I note them here only for the benefit of the detail-oriented reader

RS 432 - Helena Montana Passenger Depots

She replaced the Oriental Limited as the secondary train to the famed Empire Builder

570 tons on the 14 mile long 1

Grain from Montana’s “Golden Triangle” and from central Montana moved both eastward and westward

In crib style of construction 2”x8”