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  • Publication: Making Tracks: 23 Classic Railroad StoriesPublication Record # 433074
  • Editors: Jon A. Schlenker, Charles G. Waugh
  • Date: 2013-00-00
  • ISBN: 978-1-935573-72-2 [1-935573-72-1]
  • Publisher: Sam Teddy Publishing
  • Price:
    $18.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 376
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Notes: Only speculative stories or ones by genre authors have been listed in the contents here. The remaining stories are:
    • Maurice Thompson "Stealing a Conductor" Hoosier Mosaics (1875) (Treated harshly by a conductor, a hobo manages to reek havoc on the man's psyche after getting back on the train.)
    • Mark Twain "The Invalid's Story" The Stolen White Elephant (1882) (A hilarious tale of two occupants of a baggage car mistaking the odor from a package of limburger cheese as coming from a coffin.)
    • Brander Matthews "In the Vestibule Limited" Harper's Monthly (Mar. 1891) (A rejected suitor begins anew after discovering he and his fiancée both occupy the same transcontinental train.)
    • Elmore Elliott Peake "The Night Run of the 'Overland'" McClure's, June, 1900 (When the delayed "Overland" needs an engineer, but the spare is sick, the supervisor enlists the man's wife, who has had experience, in fact, much more extensive than realized.)
    • John A. Hill "Jim Wainright's Kid" McClure's Magazine, Oct., 1901 (This story offers a heartwarming revelation about why Jim Wainright, an engineer, and his "kid" fireman were so devoted to one another.)
    • O. Henry "Hearts and Hands" Everybody's Magazine, Dec., 1902 (As usual, O. Henry gives his famous twist to a brief train encounter a young woman has with one of her former boyfriends.)
    • Owen Wister "Stanwick's Business" The Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 8, 1904 (This subtle story about a "blowhard" writer of railroad stories, a literary critic, a railroad crew, a train wreck, and the passengers' response to it, treats multiple points of view fairly.)
    • Ellis Parker Butler "Pigs is Pigs" American Illustrated Magazine, Sept., 1905 (This fall-down-on-the-floor-laughing story about an Irish express agent and guinea-pigs may represent the ultimate indictment of bureaucracies.)
    • Frank L Packard "Rafferty's Rule" Collier's, Jan. 4, 1908 (Enjoyable story of a young man's struggle with the brutish leader of a railroad repair crew.)
    • Harry Bedwell "The Secret Red Lights" Railroad Man's Magazine, May and Jun., 1911 (In the old Southwest, a former hell-raising alcoholic struggles to break up a blackmailing plot while striving for redemption, acceptance, and love.)
    • Edmund Mitchell "Tantalus of Thirty-Seven" Sunset, Oct., 1912 (When a seeming acrobatic knight-of-the-road shows up, an autocratic conductor's vow to run a hoboless train undergoes a severe challenge.)
    • Eugene Manlove Rhodes "Consider the Lizard" The Saturday Evening Post, Jun. 28, 1913 (In this well-written Old West mystery, townspeople try to figure out who is likely to have robbed their trains.)
    • George A. Cleveland "The Triumph of Hiram Perkins" Maine in Verse and Story (1915) (An ingenious Yankee, after studying the nearby railroad remote signaling system, invents his own remote controlled machine, designed to frighten his cows home each evening.)
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Girl in the Pink Hat" The Forerunner, Feb., 1916 (As a result of overhearing an argument on a train, two sisters hatch a plot designed to rescue a young lady whose fiancé doesn't intend to let her leave him.)
    • Clarence B. Kelland "The Mountain Comes to Scattergood" The Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 24, 1917 (When a New England railroad tries to "run over" an apparent hayseed, it is they who end up with a "whupping.")
    • Saki "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" (An impish aristocrat misses her train, is mistaken for a nanny, and proceeds to puncture all pretenses of the nouveau riche family she serves.)
    • Frances G. Wood "Turkey Red" Pictorial Review, Nov., 1919, (This story offers several things: a vivid glimpse of a winter blizzard in the Dakota territories, what it is like to be a pioneer, and an understanding of how important railroads were to the West.)
    • George A. Birmingham "Starting the Train" Lady Bountiful (1922) (Irish railway workers will not run their train when armed English soldiers occupy a compartment. But unless they do, a Irish businessman will miss his boat, and lose a lucrative English distributorship. So what on earth can be done?)
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Anthology Title: Making Tracks: 23 Classic Railroad Stories • anthology by Jon A. Schlenker and Charles G. Waugh

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