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All Aboard for Christmas Author: Christopher Jennison Publisher: Harry N Abrams (December 1, 2004)
When we were children-at least in our imaginations-it always snowed at Christmas, the trains were always on time, and at the end of our holiday journeys grandparents always awaited us with smothering hugs and piles of presents. Few childhood images are more enduring than Christmas and trains. This heartwarming book of stories, poems, and pictures brings back joyous memories of holiday train rides, wondrous homecomings, and clicking toy trains beneath the tree.
In the spirit of Norman Rockwell and Frank Capra, author Christopher Jennison evokes the enchantment of bygone Christmases in the era of train travel. Vintage magazine covers from Railroad, The New Yorker, and The Saturday Evening Post; Minnie and Mickey Mouse in Christmas attire aboard a train; and original Lionel Train advertisements dating from the 1950s are only a few of the nostalgia-filled images, many never before published, that illustrate this Yuletide anthology. All Aboard for Christmas is the ultimate gift book and stocking stuffer for lovers of this holiday, its customs, and its collectibles. AUTHOR BIO: Christopher Jennison has written or cowritten seven books on sports, including Yankee Stadium and Pennants and Pinstripes. An avid collector of railroading memorabilia, he is a senior editor at the Guildford Press in New York.
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A wonderfully nostalgic tribute to the lovable kitten that became one of the best-remembered company symbols of all time. She was featured on the sleek passenger trains that ran from Washington to Cincinatti, and on freight cars in mile-long trains, she helped sell war bonds, and finally was modernized to form the logo for the new Chessie System paint scheme in 1972. Purrr-fect for every train enthusiast!
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No memory of train travel survives so vividly as a sumptuous meal in the dining car. James D. Porterfield chronicles the evolution of the dining car from hotcakes hawked in the aisles to gourmet service. Included are 325 delicious recipes from 48 great railroads of the 20th century. These recipes needed to be cooked quickly in small kitchens with few utensils, using fresh ingredients, so they're fast and easy to prepare and marvelous to serve for today's chefs.
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These stories of authentic old-time hobos who still ride the rails ? Steamtrain Maury, Tumbleweed, Reefer Charlie, and others ? pull the reader into a world of rambling adventure. The author, a middle-class woman who served as the executive director of the Indiana Transportation Museum (and whose father at one time road the rails himself), teamed up with some of these modern-day hobos to jump the trains in search of adventure and self-knowledge. In a tribute to her spirit and friendship, she was given the hobo name Gypsy Moon and elected as a National Queen of the Hobos. This fascinating book ends with a delicious collection of hobo recipes, including Norm's Muskrat and All-Day Long Jungle Jambalaya.
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The late Frank Wendell Call is very much alive in these pages as he relates the fascinating tale of the rich, adventuresome existence he lived as a child in the Nevada desert along the Southern Pacific railroad line. In November 1928, Frank E. Call, a successful salesman, moved his young family from a comfortable home in Ogden, Utah, to a tiny two-room shanty in an isolated railroad station in northeastern Nevada. He went to work as a gandydancer, a track laborer, and planned to become a section foreman. The first part of Frank's plan worked very well, but, the stock market crash in October 1929 and the Great Depression that followed upset his timetable.
Meanwhile, Frank and Johanne Call's six lively children adapted to living alongside the tracks in primitive houses without electricity or indoor plumbing. The colorful narrative by the family's oldest includes commentaries on railroading and the railroaders' language and describes social conditions and customs existing in tiny-town Nevada in the early twentieth century, told from the viewpoint of the children themselves.
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