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Railroads American Geographical Society Know your America Program John Weaver SC
Railroads American Geographical Society Know your America Program John Weaver
Soft Cover stapled
Copyright 1958
64 Pages Stamps/stickers have been attached
TRAINS ARE DEEPLY INGRAINED in the American heritage, a part of the zest for living and accomplishment of a youthful, vigorous nation, expanding and on the move. Trains demand hard, man-sized, brutal work, but are also highly tuned, precision machines that can be both master and servant, and that can talk to those who but pause to listen. Trains are timepieces living hard-won schedules, fighting miles and space. Trains are a roar of power, a whine of steel on steel, an irresistible siren's call to the intriguing mysteries of faraway places.
We have all waved a salute to a passing engineer. We can remember the sight of a gleaming streamliner speeding along the floor of a peaceful valley, the muffled echo of its whistle resounding from the summer-green velvet of the rolling hills beyond. We have watched the long freight "reaching for the iron" as, winding slowly up the grade, she snorts and labors for a mountain pass, or have seen her clatter through a city crossing as lowered bars, a clanging bell, and a flashing light restrain us from danger. We have looked into the steady, piercing glare of an approaching headlight; have felt our pulse quicken to the puckered light of blurred windows as the rushing cars hurtle through the night; have gazed at the receding red afterglow of rear end lights disappearing around a distant curve.
Who has not walked along a railroad right-of-way, at times teetering along the top of a rail, struggling to hold his balance, and then at last dropping down to find that the ties are not quite properly spaced to match an ordinary stride? Who has not listened to the low hum of the telephone wires overhead, or as a youth treasured a rusted spike retired from its former duty beside a rail?
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