# The Express Messenger, and Other Tales of the Rail

* information about this edition.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
Layout 2
The Expresss Messenger
AND
Other Tales of the Rail
BY
CY WARMAN
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1897
Copyright, 1897. By Charles Scribner's Sons.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.
TO
DANA CY WARMAN
My Blue-eyed Baby Boy
WHOSE DIMPLED HANDS ARE KNOCKING AT MY DOOR WHO STEALS INTO MY STUDY AND HINDERS INTO MY HEART AND HELPS
CONTENTS
* page
* The Express Messenger................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
* The Locomotive that lost Herself................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................41
* A Wild Night at Wood River................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................71
* Wakalona................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................83
* A Locomotive as a War Chariot................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................103
* A Ghost Train Illusion................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................119
* The Story of Engine 107................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................135
* Catching a Runaway Engine................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................153
* A Railway Mail Clerk................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................161
* The Mysterious Message................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................177
* Scraptomania................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................227
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse