Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer, credited to Henry Dawson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer by Henry Dawson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are not just rough men, but are also brave and heroic men through descriptions of divers dangers encountered on the tracks. (Summary adapted from the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
• Author credits: Henry Dawson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 3:31:49

Catalogue topics

• railroad
• steam
• locomotive
• accidents
• engineering

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 2:04
2. 01 - Running in a Fog — 8:53
3. 02 - A Close Shave — 9:30
4. 03 - A Collision — 7:44
5. 04 - Collision Extraordinary — 5:45
6. 05 - Burning of the Henry Clay — 8:28
7. 06 - The Conductor — 6:44
8. 07 - Bravery of an Engineer — 9:29
9. 08 - The Fireman — 10:04
10. 09 - The Brakeman — 9:12
11. 10 - A Dream in the "Caboose" — 11:26
12. 11 - An Unmitigated Villain — 7:55
13. 12 - A Proposed Race between Steam and Lightning — 6:15
14. 13 - An Abrupt Call — 3:49
15. 14 - The Good Luck of being Obstinate — 6:50
16. 15 - Human Lives v. The Dollar — 5:53
17. 16 - Forty-two Miles Per Hour — 8:04
18. 17 - Used up at Last — 4:43
19. 18 - A Victim of Low Wages — 8:58
20. 19 - Coroners' Juries v. Railroad Men — 7:27
21. 20 - Adventures of an Irish Railroad Man — 7:58
22. 21 - A Bad Bridge — 8:02
23. 22 - A Warning — 7:21
24. 23 - Singular Accidents — 4:47

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