Perkins to Forbes, Aug. 25, 1881, F 3.23.3, CB&Q.
William Emerson Strong, Glimpses of Travel in the West with the Lieutenant General of the Army (Ayer MS 3175), p. 11, Newberry Library.
The best accounts of railroad work and the struggle over it are Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987),
and Walter Licht, Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983).
Transportation Rules, Northern Pacific System of Railroads, in Effect Sept. 1, 1883.
The Burlington's early descriptions of duties were even shorter.
untitled, "Prepared by John B. Nyman," 63, 1870, 6.5, CB&Q.