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One of my favorite books regarding railroads is: Set Up Running: The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904-1949. It is written by John Orr who was the son of a PRR engineman Oscar Orr and chronicles his father's journeys across the PRR system operating various locomotives and detailing movements. It gives a really insightful look at how much work had to be put in to become successful as Oscar was as an employee of the PRR. In fact he mentions a fantastic story how his father had to start a 16 car passenger train with a lone D16sb that was out of sand! The D16sb was used since the original locomotive, a K4, went down with a mechanical problem.