Introduction: A mix of love and luck
Rumbling up the horseshoe
Averell Harriman and his Streamliner
Sin and the aspiring reporter
The country boy who as King of Florida
Wooing bankers with a railway car
The locomotive that sashayed
The "token yokel" meanders north
The biggest railroad story of them all
"The greatest thing since sex and watermelon"
The dinner debate with Graham Claytor
The steadfast Colonel and the unsteady rock
"Who knows Hays Watkins?"
A modern Annie Oakley takes on Lou Menk
The lawyer's son from Buffalo
J.B. Hunt takes a ride on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
"They nod off regularly on the job"