John W. Orr graduated from Penn State in 1949. Recently deceased, he resided in Ralston, Pennsylvania.
"Set Up Running describes life in engine service as seldom told before. You will like it. The good and the bad, the long, long nights, broken knuckles, pulled couplers, firemen that don't know how to fire and don't want to learn, derailments, engines that won't steam, washouts - it's all here. Not only is this an unvarnished story of what engine service was really like but it is also a valuable sociological portrait of railroading seldom explored in this detail. This was a difficult book for me to lay aside.... You will enjoy riding with engineer O. P. Orr in this true story of running an engine in the days of steam." - Robert E. McMillan, The Lexington Quarterly "The cumulative effect is an extended meditation on a lost world of rugged, single-minded men - almost monkish in their devotion to their job and 'the company' - who once threaded their engines along river banks and down grades to deliver carloads of coal and lumber and merchandise to larger towns, where the freight was reshuffled into other trains and delivered to virtually every point on the continent." - Mark Reutter, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
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