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The Nerve of Foley and Other Railroad Stories (1900)

door Frank H. Spearman

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Frank H. Spearman was an early 20th century American author best known for books about the West, and particularly about railroads. His works were some of the most vivid depictions of the mid-19th century expansion across the frontier.
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    Held for Orders door Frank H. Spearman (alco261)
    alco261: Held for Orders is Spearman's second collection of short stories.
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    The Night Operator door Frank L. Packard (alco261)
    alco261: Frank Packard's book is another fine collection of railroad fiction.
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The Nerve of Foley & Other Railroad Stories is Frank Spearman’s first collection of short stories which was originally printed in 1900. Spearman (1859-1936) was a western Nebraska banker whose clientele included a large percentage of railroad employees. He had "a gift for listening and near-perfect recall.” Many of his short stories were based on conversations he had with his clients and if you have ever read a good first person account of working on the railroad (Brownie the Boomer, Railroadman, Boomer, etc.) you can't help but notice how the dialogue, word pictures, and stories ring true.

The stories in this collection are as follows:

The Nerve of Foley- a strikebreaker saves a baby…and the day.

Second Seventy-Seven – a railroad man risks his life in the teeth of a storm to save a passenger train.

The Kid Engineer- a newbie proves his worth on a damaged runaway train.

The Sky-Scraper – a new engine is the common element that reunites a family.

Soda-Water Sal – The Sky-Scraper as rebuilt after a major wreck saving the day at the hands of a greenhorn fireman.

The McWilliams Special – a race against time to avoid financial disaster.

The Million-Dollar Freight Train- moving a silk train over a railroad on strike.

Bucks – an introduction to a character who plays a part in several of Spearman’s short stories.

Sankey’s Double Header – the hazards of bucking snow.

Siclone Clark – a mystery man cowboy/engineer with a checkered past.

Unlike Held for Orders (Spearman’s second collection of short stories published in 1901) all of the stories in The Nerve of Foley have the common background of events surrounding a railroad strike. As with Spearman’s other short story collection, the writing and character development are well done. I consider this book second only to Held for Orders as far as collections of railroad short stories are concerned. ( )
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There had been rumors all winter that the engineers were going to strike.
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From The Million-Dollar Freight Train - I saw the boy holding the throttle at a half and fingering the air anxiously as we jumped through the frogs; but the roughest riding on track so far beats the ties as a cushion that when the 109 suddenly stuck her paws through an open switch we bounced against the roof of the cab like footballs. I grabbed a brace with one hand and with the other reached instinctively across to Bartholomew’s side to seize the throttle he held. But as I tried to shut him off he jerked it wide open in spite of me, and turned with lightning in his eye. “No!” he cried, and his voice rang hard. The 109 took the tremendous shove at her back and leaped like a frightened horse. Away we went across the yard , through the cinders, and over the ties. My teeth have never been the same since. I don’t belong on an engine, anyway, and since then I have kept off. At the moment I was convinced that the strain had been too much – that Bartholomew was stark crazy. He sat bouncing clear to the roof and clinging to his levers like a lobster. But his strategy was dawning on me; in fact, he was pounding it into me. Even the shock and scare of leaving the track and tearing up the yard had not driven from Bartholomew’s noodle the most important feature of our situation, which was, above everything , KEEP OUT OF THE WAY OF THE SILK-TRAIN. I felt every moment more mortified at my attempt to shut him off. I had done the trick of the woman who grabs the reins. It was even better to tear up the yard than to stop for Foley to smash into and scatter the silk over the coal-chutes. Bartholomew’s decision was one of the traits which makes the runner; instant perception coupled to instant resolve. The ordinary dub thinks what he should have done to avoid disaster after it is all over; Bartholomew thought before. On we bumped, across frogs, through switches, over splits, and into target rods, when – and this is the miracle of it all – the 109 got her fore-feet on a split switch, made a contact, and, after a slew or two like a bogged horse, she swung up sweet on the rails again, tender and all. Bartholomew shut off with an under cut that brought us up double and nailed her feet, with the air, right where she stood. We had left the track, ploughed a hundred feet across the yards, and jumped on to another track. It is the only time I ever heard of its happening anywhere, but I was on the engine with Bartholomew Mullen when it was done.
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