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All Aboard With E M Frimbo World's Greatest Railroad Buff Soft Cover 1997
All Aboard with EM Frimbo by Rogers EM Whitaker & Tony Hiss
Soft Cover
388 pages
Copyright 1997
CONTENTS
Illustrationsxv
Preface to the Expanded Editionxvii
Acknowledgments for the Expanded Edition xxix
Acknowledgments xxxi
1. All for Love1
2. We Shall Overcome10
3. Frimbo Arrested 24
4. The Contessa32
5. Iron Horses44
6. Frimbo's Game Plan47
7. Frimbo's Frolic56
8. Mr. McGregor's Garden66
9. Last Run76
10. Letter from Poland86
11. Mileage93
12. Ithaca: A Case History from Frimbo's File 99
13. Dining-Car-Steward Days 106
14. Frimbo on the Metroliner114
15. Flier123
16. Pegleriana127
17. Notes and Comment 131
18. Falling by the Wayside135
19. Wonderful Day 147
20. Frimbo's Trans-Siberian Journal151
21. Frimbo's Black Homburg161
22. In Memoriam164
23. Turkey Hash for Breakfast175
24. Dayliner 180
25. Letter from Japan185
26. Letter from India188
27. Frimbo on Cats 193
28. The Host and the Guests198
29. Method in Your Madness206
30. En Voiture!215
31. Gathering222
32. Letter from New Orleans225
33. The Contessa-Again232
Previously Uncollected Chapters
34. Grand Central237
35. Louis Sullivan in Manhattan244
36. A Bordo! 247
37. Go Far East, Young Man253
38. A Welsh Folly260
39. Letting Off Steam270
40. Homecoming275
41. Sorting the U.S. Mail281
42. The CafFanny 288
43. Diners on Broadway293
44. A 2,500,000 Milepost 298
45. Up, Up, and Away304
46. Christening Frimbo's Railroad Car312
47. Love among the Ruins317
48. Corn on the Cob322
49. Frimbo's Retreat329
50. A Ferryboat Comeback336
51. The Frimbonians341
52. Down the Track346
53. Rogers E. M. Whitaker, 190o-1981 352
54. Frimbo's Peak36
Postscript from the Original Edition389
About the Authors 391
ILLUSTRATIONS
Whitaker, espying the road aheadxxiv
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad xxvi
Near Zermatt5
A New England interurban17
In Nevada28-29
There aren't any hotels52-53
Some buffs on the celebrated Virginia & Truckee Railway 59
A Polish 600-mm. gauge91
From the two million miles-a South African Railways 4-8-494-95
North Conway, New Hampshire, railway station103
An early Swiss progenitor of the Metroliner119
An Angolan Garratt locomotive 142-143
A dining car on the Trans-Siberian155
An earlier Dayliner meets the Coeur d'Alene Express183
The Taj Express, between New Delhi and Agra190-191
Preparing to cross the Mexican semidesert210-211
Over the Suwanee River, 1906228-229
Whitaker emerging from Grand Central Terminal243
One of Whitaker's wheel reports254
Whitaker, on the Festiniog Railway267
Mileage recorded, Whitaker-style299
Whitaker, in front of "his" railroad car 314
A young Whitaker, smiling for all the world324
Yet another milepost331
Frimbo, the musical, and its program logo358
The last hurrahs for Whitaker's battered homburg and Olympia359
Whitaker's bronze epitaph362
One more milepost363
Ticket for the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad365
A coal chute along the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad368
Francis Whitaker's blacksmith marks387
Whitaker and Hiss striking a jovial pose392
ON THE BACK COVER
For more than five decades, the spirit of E. M. Frimbo chugged through the pages of The New Yorker, chronicling adventures on rails broad and narrow und the world. This greatly expanded edition of All Aboard with EM Frimbo combines all thirty-three of the Frimbo pieces published to great acclaim in 1974 with twenty-one previously uncollected articles, chosen by the intrepid traveler's friend and amanuensis, Tony Hiss. Here, for the first time in book form, are The Old Curmudgeon's search for lost Louis Sullivan masterpieces in Manhattan, and a journey through Wales to the nineteenth-century village immortalized in the futuristic television series The Prisoner. Other articles record Frimbo's special honors, such as the christening of a restored vintage coach in his name, and a final tribute to him, appropriately mounted at Cumbres Pass, the highest elevation reached by passenger trains in the United States. With a companion as urbane and entertaining as Frimbo, a journey-on the rails or in print-is all peaks and no valleys.
Beginning in 1926, Rogers E. M. Whitaker, Frimbo's alter ego, wrote a sports column and nightclub reviews for The New Yorker when not pursuing his fascination with railroading. Tony Hiss, a staff writer at The New Yorker for thirty-two years, is the author of The Experience of Place. He lives in New York City.
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