VR Library

Library

Fiction and nonfiction documents are available in three formats: PDF (Adobe Acrobat), Palm (universal Palm Doc), and TXT (plain ASCII text). The Palm and TXT formats do not have illustrations. TXT documents are suitable for the Pocket PC.

Fiction

.007 (Kipling, 1897)	Rudyard Kipling was one of the great storytellers, well known for his Kim, Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and others. In ".007" Kipling turns his attention to railroads, breathing life into the otherwise inanimate steam locomotive. This is a tale of heroism and acceptance. [Public domain.]	PDF, Palm, TXT
Holding up a train (Henry, 1916)	Train robberies seem to have been a characteristally American phenomenon. In this story O. Henry relates the first-hand experience of someone who tried his hand at holding up trains. [Public domain.]	PDF, Palm, TXT
McQueen's Hobby (Packard, 1911)	Action-packed story portraying the rough-and-ready characters in American railroading at the time. This story is a chapter from Frank L. Packard's On The Iron At Big Cloud. [Public domain.]	PDF, Palm, TXT
Pigs is Pigs (Butler, 1905)	This is a humorous story of one freight agent who stuck to the rules. [Public domain.]	PDF, Palm, TXT
The Locomotive Who Lost Herself (Warman, 1897)	This is a fast-moving tale of a passionate inventor and his obsession with his prized creation, locomotive 13. [Public domain.]	PDF, Palm, TXT

Nonfiction

Miss Springfield (Barten, 1991)	This is the story of a pioneering effort by the Springfield Street Railway (Massachusetts) to revitalize the lagging street railway industry. Miss Springfield, an experimental car of radical (for the times -- 1926) design, was one of the early, important steps in the process that led to the development of the famous PCC "streamlined" car. [©1991 Alfred Barten. All rights reserved.]	Rail Works in Progress
Old Maude (Barten, 1992)	"Old Maude" is the story of America's first high-speed main line electric locomotive, created as part of the New York Central's pioneering Grand Central Terminal electrification project. [©1992 Alfred Barten. All rights reserved.]	PDF, Palm, TXT

Index

Index of Virtual Railroader articles; data is contained in an Excel spreadsheet to enable sorting by column.

VR_index_v3n3.zip