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Rails Remembered Volume 2 by Louis M Newton w/ dust jacket
Rails Remembered Vol 2 by Louis M Newton
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Notice the corners
235-484 pages
Copyright 1996
CONTENTS
Addenda and Errata, Volume 1 235
Acknowledgments, Volume 2238
Introduction, Volume 2 239
18 - OVERSEAS AND ACROSS THE ALPS 240
How to See Europe from a Boxcar
19 - AT THE BASE OF THE IRON CURTAIN254
The 88th Infantry Division in Venezia-Giulia
20 - ACCURATE WATCHES, PUNCTUAL TRAINS274
And 655 Years of Independence
21 - HOME FOR CHRISTMAS ?290
Back in the U. S. A.
22 - POSTWAR PROGRESS302
A New Tower at East End
23 - THE VIEW FROM THE HILL AND ELSEWHERE308
Including Two K&A Divisions and the Smoky Mountain
24 - RAILROADING, 1947-STYLE326
Some Trains of Yesterday and Tomorrow
25 - THE TERMINATION OF TENNESSEE'S TROLLEYS 342
Boyce, Lincoln Park, and Burlington
26 - SOME CAPABLE PINCH-HITTING BY STEAM354
And the Northeast Corridor in 1948
27 - A LAKEFRONT RAILROAD FAIR370
And a Preview of the California Zephyr
28 - PART OF THE WAY ON THE SANTA FE 394
And the Coaster and a Rocket
29 - RAILROADING IN THE HEART OF DIXIE414
The Old Reliable and Its Connections
30 - A RIDE ON OLD SMOKY426
And Some Glimpses of The Nashville Route'
31 - SEEKING RAILROAD EMPLOYMENT450
And Finding An Offer of It
32 - TROUBLE IN THE COAL FIELDS 468
An Unexpected Turn of Events
Bibliography 483
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Volume 2 of Rails Remembered is a continuation of the previous volume, covering the further development of the author's interest in railroading during the immediate post-World War II years. The early chapters include his views of Continental railroading, sometimes from rather unusual vantage points, while serving with U. S. occupation forces in Italy.
Back home as a civilian, the author enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Several chapters are devoted to his observations of the local railroad operations during his student years. Other locations in the Southeast are also covered, as well as a circle tour of the American West.
The author writes, "If it ran on rails, I took notice of it", This interest included such major Southeastern trunk lines as the Southern and the Louisville & Nashville, regional carriers such as the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, the Clinchfield, and the Tennessee Central, and special attention to the archetypical short line known as the Smoky Mountain Railroad.
His interests also included electric interurban and street railways, a vanishing breed in the late 1940s. One complete chapter and a number of photographs are devoted to this subject.
His most intense interest, however, was in the steam locomotive. Therefore, he watched regretfully in the postwar years as diesels toppled one steam bastion after another - with a few notable exceptions. A major steam loyalist, of course, was the Norfolk & Western, which continued to draw the author's special attention. In fact, before his senior year was completed at the University of Tennessee in 1949, he had received and had accepted an offer of employment from that company.
In short, Volume 2 is a first-person account of the development of a railway enthusiast's youthful avocation into an intended vocation, interwoven with items of the industry's history. It includes 295 black-and-white photographs of steam, electric, and diesel operations, mostly from the author's own collect
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