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The Last Spike and Other Railroad Stories
Coming up to the gang Bradford singled out the man who was swearing loudest and delivered the note. "Fall in " said the straw boss and Bradford got busy. He could handle one end of a thirty-foot rail with ease and before night without exciting the other workmen or making any show of superiority he had quietly almost unconsciously become the leader of the track-laying gang. The foreman called Casement’s attention to the new man and Casement watched him for five minutes.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
- GenresFiction
148 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1906
About the author
Cy Warman
36 books2 followersCyrus Warman was a railroad worker and writer.
Warman began working as a farmer and wheat broker at Pocahontas, Ill. In 1880, he went to Colorado, where he worked in the railroad yards at Salida. He became a locomotive fireman and then an engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
In 1888 he was too ill to continue as an engineer, so he went to Denver and became a journalist. He was editor of the newspaper Western Railway. In 1892, he moved to Creede Colorado, where a new silver mine had just opened, and started The Chronicle newspaper.
In 1891, his first book, a book of poetry inspired by the Colorado mountains, "The Canyon of the Grand," was published. He continued to publish poems and songs.
In 1893, as the silver boom at Creede collapsed, Warman went to New York City. He offered to write a story for McClure's Magazine about railroading, and he rode from New York to Chicago in the engineer's cab of a New York Central flyer and published the story, "A Thousand-Mile Ride on the Engine of the Swiftest Train in the World," in January of 1894. It was very successful, and he went on to write many more stories about railroading.
Warman began working as a farmer and wheat broker at Pocahontas, Ill. In 1880, he went to Colorado, where he worked in the railroad yards at Salida. He became a locomotive fireman and then an engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
In 1888 he was too ill to continue as an engineer, so he went to Denver and became a journalist. He was editor of the newspaper Western Railway. In 1892, he moved to Creede Colorado, where a new silver mine had just opened, and started The Chronicle newspaper.
In 1891, his first book, a book of poetry inspired by the Colorado mountains, "The Canyon of the Grand," was published. He continued to publish poems and songs.
In 1893, as the silver boom at Creede collapsed, Warman went to New York City. He offered to write a story for McClure's Magazine about railroading, and he rode from New York to Chicago in the engineer's cab of a New York Central flyer and published the story, "A Thousand-Mile Ride on the Engine of the Swiftest Train in the World," in January of 1894. It was very successful, and he went on to write many more stories about railroading.
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