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A Memory of Trains: The "Boll Weevil" and Others Book
"A Memory of Trains is a book about trains like Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi is a book about steamboats?which is to say, it is about trains, but it is about so much more. It is social history, memoir, and?as the author says at one point?a journey toward a vocation," writes Fred Hobson in the introduction. ?As the son of a railroad conductor and product of a railroad town (Hamlet, N.C.) I?m a passionate railway buff. But in this wonderful reminiscence of old trains great and small, North and South, freight and passenger, smoke and whistle, illustrated by his own photographs, Louis Rubin shows himself King of the Buffs and Master of the Tracks. You can almost hear someone shouting "all aboard!" says Tom Wicker. "Railfans will find all the material they crave about the webs of passenger and freight routes that once plied those parts of the nation ... Rubin's work is also a literary elegy of trains and the culture they bore ... a handsome volume ... Trainspotters everywhere will love it," says Publishers Weekly. "It is his beautifully written narrative, humble and elegant, that makes the book such a gem," wrote Preservation magazine. And the photographs "convey the power, grace, movement, and beauty of the speeding train." "The author's photos accompany the well-written chapters, leave readers saddened by all that was lost when railroads lost their grandeur, but they will appreciate the memories this autobiography stirs," says Roger Carp in Trains magazine. "His photographs, 122 in number, are pure nostalgia; freight trains, passenger trains, trains rolling across trestles and heading into small-town stations, cabooses, water towers, and a carnival train with gaudily painted flatcars ... For readers old enough to remember the book is a joy; for readers too young to remember, here is a chance to share the joy," says George Cohen in Booklist magazineRead More
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- 157003382X
- 9781570033827
- Louis D. Rubin
- 31 October 2000
- University of South Carolina Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 182
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