title: With the Slack, That Will Do, and Other Railroad Stories: More True Railroad Stories (Volume 2)
author: Charles H. Geletzke Jr.
description: Chuck Geletzke was raised in Royal Oak, Michigan and graduated from Central Michigan University in 1971 with a BS in Business Administration degree, having majored in Marketing and Economics. He served in the United States Marine Corps and in the Army Reserve's 226th Railway Shop Battalion. In 2011 he retired from the Canadian National Railroad (former Grand Trunk Western) as a Locomotive Engineer with 45-years service in the railroad industry. During his career, Chuck also worked for the Delray Connecting RR, the Missouri Pacific, and the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line in both labor and in management. Additionally, Chuck and his brother owned an excavating and trucking business hauling perishable commodities throughout the Continental United States. Chuck is married, and has three married children, and three grandchildren. Other interests include model railroading, woodworking, college football (his favorite team is Navy), baseball, jazz, photography, and writing for various railroad and historical publications. In December 2011, Chuck published his first book THE DETROIT & TOLEDO SHORE LINE RAILROAD-EXPRESSWAY FOR INDUSTRY with co-author Wilbur E. Hague. Chuck's second volume, WHEN DEADHEAD COUNTED AS REST AND OTHER RAILROAD STORIES became available in February 2016.
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  **Caboose Mystery**
  
   **GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER**  
   **Illustrated by David Cunningham**
  
   **Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago, Illinois**
  
   _To My Readers_
  
   _The Little North Railroad is a storybook railroad, but the cabooses are real
  cabooses. With the help of six very kind trainmen, 1 myself took a trip by
  caboose, riding on the back platform and feeling just like Benny. I ran the
  Diesel engine, blew the whistle, rang the bell, and watched as the trainmen
  set off dynamite on the track, just as it says in these pages. As for the
  story, the adventures are wholly imaginary._
  
  GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER
  
  Contents
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1 Grandfather’s Idea
  
  2 All Aboard!
  
  3 Beaver Man
  
  4 A Strange Tale
  
  5 Glass Factory Junction
  
  6 Benny’s Adventure
  
  7 A Wild Ride
  
  8 The Rainy Day
  
  9 Engineer Benny
  
  10 Curing Sneezes
  
  11 Is It Real?
  
  12 Mysterious Message
  
  13 Surprise for Cho-Cho
  
  14 Best Trip of All
  
  About the Author
  
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