This Train Is Bound for Glory : The Story of America's Chapel Cars

This Train Is Bound for Glory : The Story of America's Chapel Cars
Author: Wilma Rugh Taylor, Norman Thomas Taylor
Publisher: Judson Press
Description: Hardcover - (September 1999)
ISBN: 0817012842

My husband Norman Thomas Taylor, a retired railroader, and myself, Wilma Rugh Taylor, a retired journalism teacher and free-lance writer, traveled over 20,000 miles over five years following the routes of these thirteen railroad church cars across 36 states. The journeys of the cars started in 1890 and ended in the early 1950s. The text is written from the original journals of the missionaries and priests who traveled on the chapel cars and provides fascinating descriptions of social and religious life in America at the turn-of-the-century.

Trains Magazine, Dec. 1999 issue, reviewed the book as one of the most comprehensive railroad history book ever published. The book is a unique blend of religious, railroad, and American history.Included are logs of over 3000 towns visited by the cars and floor plans of the cars for model railroaders. We never believed that we would have the opportunity to tell such an amazing story.

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