Excerpt from A History of Boston Division, Number Sixty-One: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers No greater pleasure has been the author's than the compiling of this volume, and if enjoyed when perused by the reader in the same spirit it was written, it can but be the author's best wishes. If anything is found amiss, it is not because it was not brought to the writer's notice in some form, as the service of a card index that grew to nearly three thousand cards was used to record every item, and passed through the author's hands and checked when the matter it contained was properly recorded in the manuscript. However, with this as an original work in this channel of history, if it contains any worthy points, let us hope and trust they may serve others, as the little knowledge of books we had when attempt ing this now shows us that we builded better than we knew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.