Norman Hall, writing in the English magazine, Photography, wrote "One of the picture-book classics of all time... In photography, there is so much shoddiness and pretense which gets itself extolled as talent that one cannot help rejoice to see a book like Railroad Men come to the surface."

We got to Albany here one time and we stopped there to take water, and the engineer gimme a silver half dollar. Fifty cents. " I'll take the water and you get up the street," and it was daylight in the morning, "and see if there's any places open," he says, "and get something."

Taken from Breakfast, one the stories in the book