1. "Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading
2. "Wasn't no equipment - it was manual labor" : construction and track laborers
3. "With his strong arm and a shovel" : African American locomotive firemen
4. "Wary feet, an alert mind, and chilled nerves" : brakemen and switchmen
5. "The world's most perfect servant" : pullman porters
6. "Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining-car cooks and waiters
7. "Farewell - we're good and gone" : railroads and black migration
8. "Represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry and steamship porters, and RPO clerks
9. "Not at all proper for women" : female railroaders
10. "Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation
11. "A little black train a-comin'" : railroad imagery in African American music
12. "Too d
- much for a negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices
13. "Marry a railroad man" : the communal life of black railroaders
14. "A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel
15. "I pick up my life and take it on the train" : representations of railroads in art and literature
16. "He knows his place" : railroads and racism.