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End Of Track By James Kyner Soft Cover 1960 First Bison Book printing 1960 280 p
End Of Track By James Kyner Soft Cover 1960 First Bison Book printing 1960 280 pages
It is commonplace to say that men and women of great age recall the incidents of youth more clearly than the happenings of yesterday. Yet, unlike many commonplace remarks this one is true. Nor need one feel that such a fact is hard to understand. The zest a person has in life grows somewhat less if he is nearly ninety, and the incidents of yesterday are merely unimportant repetitions of events from which, long since, the juice has been extracted. The days tick by like seconds of a clock, the very sound of which no longer seems to reach the ear.
Then, too, we older ones have lived throughout a period of change, and the world in which we linger is not the one to which we came. We learned to live in other times than these-in simpler times to which we are attuned. We never were exotic plants, I know, and yet we do not like so much transplanting.
If what I have to say is worth recording, it is because my youth and early manhood were spent while the strong and simple foundations of the present world were still unfinished. I have no quarrel with a world that sometimes seems to me too complicated. Perhaps, however, in what I have to say, there may be an incident or two that will explain a little of those earlier times that have so powerfully impressed themselves upon our basic structure. Perhaps my "short and simple annals" may serve to record a portion of that sturdy past without which no such land as ours could ever have developed.
The part that I have played has not been overwhelming. If what I have to say is worth the saying, it is merely because by memory is long.
The history of western railroad construction usually is written in terms of the building of the transcontinental, with emphasis on the spectacular achievement by which the continent was first spanned by railpublication in 1937 of James H Kyners memoirs provided a document which sheds light on this neglected phase of railroad history..
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