The Milwaukee Road Olympian: A Ride to Remember

The Milwaukee Road Olympian: A Ride to Remember
Author: Stanley Johnson
Publisher: Museum of North Idaho; ISBN: 0964364778
Description: Hardcover - 333 pages (June 2001)
ISBN: 0964364778

This book is different than anything ever written about luxury trains and is capable of making the oldest train fan remember and the youngest truly envious of such memories, as it describes in detail what it was like to ride more than half-way across the country?Chicago to Tacoma?in 1941, the last year such trains ran before the effects of global conflict and change made them disappear forever.

No detail is overlooked that might help satisfy the hunger of today?s reader for such an experience. The personalized story of the trip is augmented by hundreds of photographs, charts, diagrams, floor plans, dining car menus, and reproduced timetables of the time. All related by the man who actually experienced them. The book is probably best described by a reader who said, I rode that train at almost that time and when I read these pages I recalled things long since forgotten. It has made forgotten things live again and cherished things still remembered even more treasured as I fit them once more into a past that I thought was gone forever.

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