Looking through some old railroad journals that I have, but so far, only an article on lumberman's lingo.
Did find some interesting stuff, for example in 1878 engineers were classed for four years, receiving $2.36 for a hundred miles the first year and $3.93 for a hundred miles the fourth year. In 1921, a pair of high top leather work shoes with double leather soles was $1.98 with free delivery by mail from the Chicago factory.

In "The Locomotive Engineers Journal" was a full page adv. for the Burleson Sanitarium, "The largest institution in the world for the treatment of piles, fistula and all other diseases of the rectum." The picture shows a huge 8-story building. All that sitting in the cab....