Railroad Voices

Railroad Voices
Author: Linda Niemann, Lina Bertucci (Photographer)
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr (T); ISBN: 0804732094
Description: Hardcover - 158 pages (December 1998)
ISBN: 0804732094

Niemann and Bertucci produced this book from personal experiences over the last 20 years working various railroad jobs, from brakeman to conductor. Bertucci contributes 58 memorable black-and-white photographs, starkly revealing the exhaustion and stress of railroading in the faces of her co-workers. Niemann's accompanying narrative tells of her experiences as a boomer, someone who moves with the railroad wherever there is work. She describes the lives of her co-workers, her own personal restlessness, and the world of main lines and yards in California towns like Colton, Watsonville, and Bakersfield.

This book is not for those who want to savor the romance of the rails. Instead, it portrays the effects of modern railroading's bureaucracy, schedules, and dangers on its workers. The pictures are compelling and the narrative almost poetic. Essential for collections on railroading and recommended for all others.

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