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One More Train to Ride Author: Cliff Williams Publisher: Indiana University Press; (October 2003)
Life stories, poems, songs, and drawings by contemporary American hoboes.
Drawn from intimate interviews with 14 modern-day steel rail nomads, One More Train to Ride provides a revealing picture of today's American hobo. Interspersed with their stories are original poems and songs echoing the ancient lyricism and loneliness of life on the road. Their connections with the past make the experiences of these hoboes even more striking, as they ride freight trains and jungle up in hobo camps, light years away from the 21st-century cyberworld?yet touching the very core of American freedom and individualism.
Cliff Williams skillfully elicits details of family background, motives, and clear insights into the daily life and philosophy of the modern hobo. With its evocative link to the past, One More Train to Ride continues a long tradition of books on hobo oral history, including Nels Anderson's The Hobo (1923) and Thomas Minehan's Boy and Girl Tramps of America (1934).
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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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First published in 1912, this weighty study of early Federal Government regulation of railroads shows how this primary component of commercial transportation, by the setting of its prices and rates, affected the costs of many other goods and the general cost of living of ordinary citizens.
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From its founding in 1929, Railway Express Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960s. In return for a monopoly on passenger train service, the express company was obligated to accept any and all shipments within the United States. REA handled carloads of cattle, race horses, and fruits and vegetables. Radioactive material was moved on regular schedules for the Atomic Energy Commission. When companies or individuals wanted to ship something (even ten turtles) to any place in the world (even Tucumcari, New Mexico), they called REA. The history of REA coincides with the career of Klink Garrett, who began as a temporary employee in Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1934 and stayed with REA until 1973, by which time he was a senior executive and member of the company's board of directors.
Garrett spent the first half of his tenure working in small offices, usually one-man operations, in the West. In 1956 he was promoted to a national sales position with offices in both New York City and Washington, D.C. His main job was to coordinate the transportation needs of the Defense Department and the emerging nuclear industry via REA. His entrepreneurial ethic--a combination of extraordinary customer service and good old-fashioned ingenuity--gave him lots of good stories to tell, many of which are related here. His last fifteen years at REA were the years of the company's decline and the decline of the nation's railroads; by 1976 the company was bankrupt and out of business.
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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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The big top was once the greatest show on earth, not to mention America's most popular form of entertainment. Beginning in the 1870s, specially built trains transported the circus to eager crowds in every corner of the United States. Now the magic of those circus trains is captured in this delightful book depicting their unusual construction and operation. Readers will witness animals being loaded and unloaded from trains and the special coaches that housed circus personnel. Flamboyant paint schemes, special-length railroad cars, and rare builder's photos will excite the imaginations of railroad fans, circus enthusiasts, and children of all ages.
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