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Journey Through America Booked on the Morning Train, A by George Scheer III w/DJ
Journey Through America Booked on the Morning Train, A by George F Scheer III
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
300 pages
Copyright 1991
CONTENTS
Mistaken for Destiny I
Part One: The Southern Way
1. Aboard the Crescent 9
2. New Orleans: A Spin along the Levee 27
3. Aboard the City of New Orleans 37
4. A Sunday Stroll in St. Louis 49
5. The Eagle to Austin: Dry Counties and Strong Beer 59
6. The Eagle to San Antonio: Rolling Thunder 72
7. The Sunset Limited to Los Angeles: West of the Pecos 82
8. On Wheels in L.A. 99
Part Two: Piercing the Heartland
9. The Southwest Limited to Flagstaff: A Walk to the Edge 111
10. Santa Fe: Pueblo Silver at Trail's End 126
11. The Road to Cimarron 137
12. Narrow Gauge 152
13. The Southwest Limited to Kansas City: Stormy Weather 168
14. Turnaround in Galesburg 18i
15. The California Zephyr from Denver to the Bay: The Golden Spike Route 192
Part Three: The Northern Way
16. The Coast Starlight to Seattle: Under the Weather 21i
17. Seattle and the Empire Builder: The Far Turn 224
18. Storm Warning along the Great Northern 235
19. Something of Minnesota 252
20. The Empire Builder, the Lake Shore Limited, the Adirondack, and on to Boston: In Next Week Tomorrow 26
21. The Merchants Limited, the Shoreliner, and the Crescent Again: Closing the Circle 281
Train Time: A Postscript 295
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to catch a passing train and follow wherever it led, climb aboard with George Scheer. In a time of super-saver plane fares, midair traffic jams, and bomb-sniffing dogs at airports, he decided to see what remained of a different kind of travel. He went looking on America's passenger railways.
Booked on the Morning Train is the story of a month and a half on the rails on Amtrak, following the routes of famous American trains -from the heat and torpor of New Orleans to the ice and snow of Montana, from New York to San Francisco, and all points in between.
Here you'll find a different kind of traveler-a different kind of trip: people drawn to trains by nostalgia, or fear, or hope, or by the promise of a journey where the going is as important as the getting there.
Come and meet them!
Meet John Madden, cigar clamped in his teeth, wisecracking his way to the next "Game of the Week." Meet Glenn Paquin, a Pueblo Indian who gave up a fast-track job to sell silver and turquoise from a blanket on the ground. Meet a drunken, disabled Vietnam veteran named Chuck, heading west for a brain operation that could kill or cure him. Meet them all.
Forget your clocks and calendars. Book a seat on the morning train with George Scheer. Come live by train time!
In the tradition of great travel writing like that of Paul Theroux and John Steinbeck, George Scheer's Booked on the Morning Train offers a glimpse at the loneliness and freedom of the solitary traveler-and a ride deep into the heart and soul of the American experience.
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