Re: D&RG engines roll better than they run.

And we think of the "Golden Age of Steam" as being a wonderland of primitive machines, puffing and chugging across the world to far-off places like Santa Fe and Alaska.

Until we read contemporary newspaper reports.

I love them, though, some are quite humorous, as can be seen from this article in the September 27, 1909 edition of the Ogden Standard concerning a derailment on the Utah-Idaho Central railroad:

"It is said by eyewitnesses that the foreigners, instead of jumping from the car and thus freeing themselves from the moving equipment, simply slid from the car and fell in a bunch...For a time, at 17th street and Washington Avenue, pandemonium among the foreign laborers reigned supreme and the jabbering and jestculation (sic) was such as to cause an onlooker to believe a riot to be imminent."