Without waiting for orders from the yardmaster, Jones signed to his fireman, reversed, and threw open his throttle.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
He held Ashton's order close under the nose of the yardmaster, and shouted above the din of the engine whistle: "See that?
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
His locomotive drew a string of empties, eastbound, and having had a heavy pull of it coming up the grade to Cliff City, as soon as he had got the highball from the yardmaster there, he had "let her out," and was now coming to the head of the down grade to Hammon at high speed.
"Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails"
Victor Appleton