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Memory of Trains, A text and photographs by Louis Rubin Jr. W dust jacket
A Memory of Trains text and photographs by Louis D Rubin, Jr.
The Boll Weevil and others
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 2000
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Prefatory Note xiii
Acknowledgments xv
One Prologue A Smudge of Smoke 1
Two The Seaboard Yards 3
Three Foray and Return 7
Four Origins of an Obsession 11
Five "Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad" 19
Six Excursions 27
Seven A Discovery 35
Eight The Route of the Boll Weevil 45
Nine Marcel Proust and the Seaboard Coast Line 53
Photographs 61
Works Consulted 173
Index 175
A pictorial memoir of railroading during the days when trains were still the dominant mode of American intercity travel. This account tells of the role railroads played in Rubin's life.
All the machinery was on the outside, and when they came pounding along the rails, drive wheels turning, driverods stroking, pistons exploding with sound and fury and sending a swirling cloud of bituminous coal smoke overhead, the earth shook.
This is the way that Louis D. Rubin, Jr., remembers steam railroading during the days when trains were still the dominant mode of American intercity travel. In the years after the Second World War, as a young newspaperman he spent much of his time riding and photographing trains. It was a time when coal-powered Iron Horses were giving way to diesel-electric locomotives.
Railfans and general readers alike will enjoy this memoir featuring more than one hundred of Rubin's photographs. This account tells of the role that railroads and railroading played in his life as a child and youth and as an adult in a search of vocation.
Rubin began his lifelong engagement with trains in the Carolinas and Virginia, then journeyed westward to the Appalachians, northward to Maryland, New Jersey, and the Northeast, and then into the Deep South, the Midwest, and the Far West. The text and photographs of A Memory of Trains recount that journey.
There was one train that Rubin had yet to travel aboard or photograph: the Boll Weevil, which made the Hamlet-to-Charleston run during his childhood. His account of the day he finally arrived at the station in Hamlet to ride it and his exploration of what the little train meant for him constitute a poignant episode in this memoir of railroads and railroading.
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