“All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday,” said Southern Pacific. So it put together this 16-page introduction to SP locomotives and operations and offered boys an opportunity to be a “junior engineer.”

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After reading the primer, boys could answer ten questions and send their answers to the Southern Pacific Junior Engineers Club. Those who got “most” of the answers correctly would get “an official Junior Engineer badge, Rule Book, and membership signed by the Vice-President in Charge of Operations, J.H. Dyer.”

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The Train Primer doesn’t say so, but Southern Pacific also offered girls an opportunity to be a “Junior Stewardess-Nurse,” although it admitted that only “most” girls, not all as in the case of boys, “would want to be a stewardess-nurse on a Southern Pacific train someday.” Though the Train Primer is focused on locomotives, it has enough information for girls to answer the somewhat less technical questions on the junior stewardess-nurse exam.

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Aside from the obvious sexism, SP gave boys a hidden advantage over girls. Of the ten questions on the junior engineer exam, questions 9 and 10 are word-for-word duplicates of questions 3 and 4, so there were really only eight questions. Just one more way in which the world discriminated against girls.

There are no dates on any of these documents. But the Train Primer, which is mostly about steam locomotives, has one tiny photo of the E2-powered City of San Francisco, which was introduced into service on January 2, 1938. The booklet also mentions that cab-forward locomotives AC-7 were the largest locomotives on the SP; those were introduced in 1937, while the AC-8 came out in 1939. So it is safe to say that the booklet dates to 1938.