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William John Gilbert Gould - My Life On Mountain Railroads

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My Life on Mountain Railroads

title:My Life On Mountain Railroads
author:Gould, William John Gilbert.; Gould, William R.
publisher:Utah State University Press
isbn10 | asin:087421193X
print isbn13:9780874211931
ebook isbn13:9780585024899
language:English
subjectGould, William John Gilbert,--1888-1961, Mountain railroads--Utah--History, Mountain railroads--Utah--Employees--Biography.
publication date:1995
lcc:HE4071.U49G68 1995eb
ddc:385/.092
subject:Gould, William John Gilbert,--1888-1961, Mountain railroads--Utah--History, Mountain railroads--Utah--Employees--Biography.
Page ii
The Utah Railway 200 Photo by John Lawson from the W J G Gould collection - photo 2
The Utah Railway 200. Photo by John Lawson from the W. J. G. Gould collection.
My Life on Mountain Railroads
William John Gilbert Gould
edited by
William R. Gould
Utah State University Press
Logan, Utah
1995
Page iv
Copyright 1995 Utah State University Press
All rights reserved
Cover painting, "Water Stop at Gilluly," showing Gilbert Gould and his son Bill alongside
the Utah Railway 108, by Howard Fogg
Typography by WolfPack
Cover design by Michelle Sellers
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961.
My life on mountain railroads / William John Gilbert Gould, edited by William R. Gould.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961. 2. Mountain railroads
UtahHistory. 3. Mountain railroadsUtahEmployeesBiography.
I. Gould, William R., 1919- . II. Title.
HE4071.U49G68 1995
385'.092dc20[B
Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 695-4427
Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11CIP
Page v
Contents
Illustrations
vi
Foreword
vii
Publisher's Note
xiv
Youth
1
1. Trackside Childhood
7
2. From Newsboy to Roundhouse: Starting to Work
29
Fireman J
45
3. Learning to Fire
49
4. Life along the Rails
67
5. My Mentor on the Road
89
Fireman JJ
101
6. At the Rat Hole Flashing the Door
107
7. Old Heads, Rails, and Boomers
125
8. Railroad Hazards and Wrecks
145
Engineer
171
9. Engineer on the Rio Grande
173
10. Running the Utah Trains
193
11. Life on the Utah Railway
223
Epilogue
241
Index
245

Page vi
Illustrations
The Utah Railway 200
ii
The Rio Grande Western in Central Utah (map)
6
William J. G. Gould at a young age
8
The Tintic loop on the Rio Grande Western
16
Gilbert, Pauline, and Richard John Gould
39
The author as a fireman
48
A "hog" 2-8-0 consolidation engine
63
An eight-wheeler "mogul"
63
The author at age twenty-one
69
A Rome ten-wheeler, the Denver & Rio Grande 506
110
The Denver & Rio Grande 1151
116
The Denver & Rio Grande 1193
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