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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Help her over the pass," Crosby had whispered the superintendent of motive power hardly ever spoke aloud "and she'll buck a headwind like a canvas-back. Give her decent weather, and on the Sleepy Cat trail she'll run away with six, yes, eight Pullmans."
Yet he pauses in the midst of the street he is crossing and watches, as a child might watch, for the flash of its lights at the end of the darkened vista. It comes filling the empty space at which he stares with moving life engine, baggage car and a long string of Pullmans. Then all is dark again and only the noise of its slackening wheels comes to him through the night.
I see it is a young man broad across the face, dressed more for Pullmans than freights, and with a cheerful kind of smile in spite of it all that made Phoebe Snow's job look like a chimney-sweep's. "'Fall off? says I. "'Nunk, says he. 'Got off. Arrived at my destination. What town is this? "'Haven't looked it up on the map yet, says I. 'I got in about five minutes before you did.
But there remained still compact the beef herd. When all the excitement of the round-up had died, it showed as the tangible profit of the year. Its troubles began. Driven to the railroad and into the corrals, it next had to be urged to its first experience of sidedoor Pullmans. There the powerful beasts went frantic. Pike poles urged them up the chute into the cars.
Compared with this even the stuffy plush seats and smelly warmth of the car he had just left appeared temptingly homelike and luxurious. All the way down from the city he had sneered inwardly at a one-horse railroad which ran no Pullmans on its Cape branch in winter time.
And all the while that he was on the Greenleaf job in Pullmans, sitting in hotel lobbies writing letters, looking through title and probate records his own affairs raced and raged in his thoughts; they were summed up in one word: "Edith." He could not get away from Edith! His chuckle made one of the Greenleaf heirs think that Weston's representative was a good sort; "pleasant fellow!"
Anna Svenson laughed contemptuously, as if such affairs were a part of men's foolishness. "They're talking of going out, all the railroad men, if the roads use the Pullmans. That's what John has gone to see about. Work is hard to find, so they're going to make less of it." She stood easily, her arms by her side, watching Mrs. Preston eat, and talking in an even, unexcited tone.
"Well, there ain't any Pullmans running to this resort, so I stow away on a coal-burner, but somebody flags me. Then I try to hire out as a fisherman, but I ain't there with the gang talk and my stuff drags, so I fix it for a hide-away on The Blessed Isle that's her name. Can you beat that for a monaker?
They were to take a local train to Buffalo and change at that city for Chicago. Ben Basswood decided to go with them as far as Buffalo, so there would be quite a party. The boys gathered their things together and were ready to start a full day beforehand. The buying of railroad tickets and berths in the Pullmans was left entirely to Dunston Porter.
Around the town, grown in a few years to twenty thousand souls, stretched countless acres of fenced and cultivated land, yielding bountifully under the irrigating waters. From east and west long trains of nickel-plated Pullmans pulled into a granite station. The people spoke the slang of Broadway and danced the fox trot in evening clothes.
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