Originally Posted by Robert S. Butler:
for example his story "Smart Boomer" can be found in Short Lines: A collection of Classic American Railroad Stories by Johnson
That book has several great stories. One of my favorite railroad books (non-fiction) is Southern Railroad Man: Conductor N. J. Bell's Recollections. He was a conductor on several different railroads in the south from the mid to late 1800's. Reading it I learned a lot about how railroads operated "back in the day". ISBN#0-87580-184-6