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High Green And The Bark Peelers Neal B&M Story of Engineman Beaulieu w/DJ
High Green And The Bark Peelers By R M Neal
Hard Cover with dust jacket (has damage)
Copyright 1950
275 Pages
The Story of Engineman Heanry A Beaulieu and his Boston & Maine Railroad
Contents
1 Engineman Beaulieu 3
2 Occupation: (Blank)14
3 Seven-Mile Back Yard25
4 The Enthusiast 40
5 "... Not Protecting ..."48
6 The Eagle Eyes66
7 The Highest Green82
8 Slow Train In A Hurry96
9 Henry At Home 103
10 Men To Be Envied111
11 The Railroad Explains137
12 The Devil's Darling144
13 Six Feet From Death155
14 The Kwasind159
15 The Ghost Division173
16 The Electric Brain182
17 Battle In The Berkshires201
18 It'll Cost A Million211
19 The Bark Peelers222
20 Old Sturdy240
21 The Mountaineer243
22 Weight On The Drivers250
23 New Engine Terminal265
Even professors have dreams and hobbies, and this book is the true and full account of how the dream and the hobby of one professor turned into high adventure. Professor Neal, of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has been a "railfan" front boyhood, but not until just recently did he get the chance be has always wanted: to see the complete workings of a railroad, from top to bottom, engine cab to roundhouse, meeting the superintendents and enginemen and firemen, sitting up ahead in a big Diesel, chatting with the conductor of a country local, asking questions about newfangled traffic-control systems, checking statistics, hanging around freight yards, and generally having himself a wonderful time....
This book is the story of a railroad, One of Professor Neal's favorites-the Boston & Maine. It is at acute and special job of reporting, filled with up-to-date information and comment, but it is something more than that; it has all the liveliness and zest of a youngster reporting on a baseball game. It is the kind of book that only an ardent and thoroughly well-informed radian could have written; yet it is something more, it is the story of the development of transportation and how it changed the folkways of a part of America, and of the personalities involved in that development and that change-men like Henry A. Beaulieu, who after a half-century on the Boston & Maine still says, "I never saw the day I didn't want to work." That's the way railroad men talk, and that's the feeling Professor Neal has caught in his book-it's a grand, lively story for young and old, railfan and folkway enthusiast and general reader alike.
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