Last train to Texas : my railroad odyssey /
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Thomas G. Hoback; Introduction; Part 1: Running the Railroads; 1. President Carter to the Rescue; 2. The Man You Never Wanted to Cross; 3. Watch Rob Run; 4. Thinking Outside the Container; 5. The World According to McClellan; 6. The Saga of "Pisser Bill"; 7. A Man in Full; 8. Mike Haverty's Long Shadow; 9. How to Go Boots Up in Railroading; 10. The Battles of Powder River; 11. When Lou Menk Saved a Zephyr; 12. Inside the Mind of Michael Ward; 13. The Legacy of Hunter Harrison; 14. A Battle for Supremacy in the West
- Part 2: Travels around trains15. The Cocoon of a Long-Distance Train; 16. No Place for Man or Beast . . . or Train; 17. The Ladies from Cork Are Aghast; 18. Crossing the Country in a Blur; 19. Ode to a Coach Yard; 20. By Train to the End of the Earth; 21. Pencil-Whipping Train 101; 22. I Plead the Fifth; 23. My Prestigious Experience; 24. The Late, Late Train; 25. The Train to Cordoba; 26. You Gotta Love the Soo Line; 27. New York City, Then; 28. New York City, Now; 29. Best Little Railroad in Effingham; 30. Last Train to Texas; 31. Railroading in a Fiery Furnace; 32. Night Train to Nowhere
- Part 3: Kicking the train down the tracks33. Miss Katy's Funny Pieces of Paper; 34. Moments I'd Rather Forget; 35. The Timeless Clovis Sub; 36. What's the Matter with Florida?; 37. The Brain Drain; 38. A Little Drawbridge That Couldn't; 39. That Commodore Vanderbilt Feeling; 40. The Ageless World of Stan Kistler; 41. Saturday Night Fever; 42. Who Really Saved Illinois Central; 43. Why You May Yet Read by Candlelight; 44. 14th Street at Night; 45. The Wreck of Old 54; 46. The Mother of All Traffic Jams; Index; About the Author