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All Aboard With E M Frimbo World's Greatest Railroad Buff DJ Whitaker W/DJ
All Aboard With E M Frimbo Worlds Greatest Railroad Buff By Rogers E M Whitaker
235 Pages
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1974
1.All for Love1
2. We Shall Overcome10
3. Frimbo Arrested24
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
13. Dining-Car-Steward Days106
14. Frimbo on the Metroliner114
15. Flier 123
16. Pegleriana 127
17. Notes and Comment 131
18. Falling by the Wayside 135
19. Wonderful Day 147
2o. Frimbo's Trans-Siberian Journal151
21. Frimbo's Black Homburg161
22. In Memoriam 164
23. Turkey Hash for Breakfast
24. Dayliner180
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-Again 232
Postscript235
Illustrations
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 locomotive142-143
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
Here's E. M. Frimbo, the world's greatest railroad buff-the man who has traveled more than 2,334,000 miles by rail on six continents over six decades, the man of incomparable wit and panache who has, in a word, made the best of living in the wrong century.
For those who have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Frimbo, there is no pleasure at all quite like spending an evening with him. His adventures recounted here offer the reader the ultimate armchair journey: join him aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway; through the Casbah of Tangier with the mysterious Contessa; up and down the Pacific Coast (where he encounters old friend Fats Waller): across the subcontinent on the Madras & Southern Mahratta; into the fabled and exclusive quarters of the world-renowned (and world-envied) Lexicographers' Club.
E. M. Frimbo's world is a world of ultimate style and urbanity: the finest talk, the finest food, the finest linen napery, the finest companions may be found where Frimbo is found, and journeying with him through the pages of this book is journeying with the most unreservedly civilized and charming travelers-in-class ever to grace the Orient Express. Am. ABOARD!
It took a chorus of special pleadings to persuade Mr. Frimbo's official biographers, Rogers E. M. Whitaker and Anthony Hiss (Mr. Whitaker is particularly close to the Great Man), to consent to collect their occasional profiles of Frimbo, many of which have appeared in The New Yorker. Once started, however, Messrs. Whitaker and Hiss were unstoppable: to this basic source material they have added nearly a score more interviews, none of which have ever appeared in print before-among them, some exceedingly rare excerpts from Frimbo's own journals and letters.
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