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<p>I read an account of a wreck at Waco, Co., on the Salida Division of the D&RGW, where a steam locomotive on a passenger train was being ridden by a traveling engineer to learn why the train had been having trouble making the time.  Under the encouragement of the traveling engineer, they were moving at least as fast as normal on straight track.  The fireman told the engineer that he would not make the curve at Waco unless he set some air.  The traveling engineer overruled the fireman, so he simply stepped through the gangway, climbed down the steps, and got off.  Can you imagine the conviction it would take to make the decision to step off a speeding passenger train on the gamble that it won't make a curve that is not even in sight yet?</p><p>The fireman won the bet and survived getting off at speed.  The three-cylinder 4-8-2 did not make the curve.  Instead, it leaped across the Arkansas River, killing the engineer, the traveling engineer, and several passengers.</p>
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