• Title: The Last Spike and Other Railroad Stories
• Author: Cy Warman
• Genre/Subject: Railroad pulp fiction
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1906
• Start date: 1/2/2023
• Finish date: 1/3/2023

Review:

Found this book for free on Kindle, a public domain book, and it was surprisingly good!

Back in the steam engine railroading days the men working on the rails pursued a dangerous and frequently deadly occupation. As a result of this, stories about life on the iron road became very popular and pulp magazines were often dedicated to railroad tales.

As I was still in buckets of pain and immobility I wanted some escapist stuff, ripping yarns of heroic brakemen and daring engine drivers. And I got that, for sure. But Cy Warman went much deeper with tales of the owners, the mechanics, the builders and the surveyors. Really good and completely unexpected.