For a collection of pictures, see Maury Klein, Union Pacific, vol. 1: Birth of a Railroad 1862-1893 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983).
Stromquist gives the best account of railroad work.
Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987), 108.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 53, 56-57, 83-89, 100-102, 118-19, 169-72.
Aldrich found corporate plans to be minimal and inadequate, but neither union plans nor private insurance covered much of the gap.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 104, 246-57
G. L. Lansing to CPH, Dec. 8, 28, 1883, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 34.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 61.
Aldrich, Death Rode the Rails, 173-174.
Pinkerton, Personal Record, 104-10.