[Rarebooks] FS; Railroad Engineer's Pocket Book, 1902

[Bob Petrilla]

Kinne, George R. KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK:
Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a First-Class Fireman....
Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. First Edition. pp: 45
+ 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of
cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use.  6.5"
x 4" Good. Full-Leather.
Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of
Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for
Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules
regarding Accidents to the Locomotive."  Following the text are 97 pages of
handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving
day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors
and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in
is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees,
etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in
1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).   $50.00

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