Excerpt from Engine-Driving Life: Or Stirring Adventures and Incidents in the Lives of Locomotive Engine-Drivers There are many facts in our railway life that pass unnoticed and unrecorded, and are lost in Oblivion; for few there are who witness the struggle for advancement, who search for the platines of fine gold and bring them to the surface. The battle of life absorbs all our energies, and it is because we are not all cast in the same mould that now and again we hear of adventures which throw fresh light on the history of men, their character and deeds, and the record of which enables others to trace the reflection of their own experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.