Clear the Tracks!

<p><strong>Clear the Tracks!</strong> first published in 1943 recounts Joseph Bromley's career as a locomotive engineer on the Lackawanna Railway in New York. Beginning as a teenager as a callboy by age 17 Bromley was aboard the engine throwing wood pieces into one of the last of the old wood-burning models. At 20 he was promoted to the right-hand side of the cab becoming the youngest engineer with the line. His entertaining reminiscences describe the more relaxed freight schedules of the day when the crew could stop on a siding for several hours of fishing or to visit family and friends. Illustrated with line drawings.</p>