track-hands

Updated: June 16, 2025

Fuller also took on here a company of track-hands to repair the track as they went along. A short distance above Calhoun, they flushed their game on a curve, where they doubtless supposed themselves out of danger, and were quietly oiling the engine, taking up the track, &c.

William Pittenger - Daring and Suffering:: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure