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This Train is Bound for Glory by Wilma Rugh Taylor & Norman Thomas Taylor
This Train is Bound for Glory by Wilma Rugh Taylor & Norman Thomas Taylor
The story of America's Chapel cars
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
382 pages
Copyright 1999
CONTENTS
Forewordxi
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1Western Railroads: "Hell on Wheels" or Heaven 1
Chapter 2The Church-on-Rails Concept: Nothing New under the Sun 11
Chapter 3The First American Chapel Car: Cathedral Car of North Dakota 17
Chapter 4The Hoyt Brothers, J. D. Rockefeller, and the Chapel Car Syndicate 29
Chapter 5Baptist Car 1: Uncle Boston's Dream, Bright Evangel37
Chapter 6Bishop Mott's Episcopal Cars of Northern Michigan 63
Chapter 7Baptist Car 2: All Hail, Emmanuel75
Chapter 8Baptist Car 3: Glad Tidings across the Plains and Prairies 105
Chapter 9Baptist Car 4: Good Will from the Southwest to the Northwest 133
Chapter 10 Baptist Car 5: Messenger of Peace, the 1904 World's Fair, and the Railroad Y 163
Chapter 11 Baptist Car 6: Herald of Hope, Roll On, Roll On 185
Chapter 12 St. Anthony: If the Baptists Can Do It, So Can the Catholics 213
Chapter 13 St. Peter: The First Steel Apostle and Peter Kuntz 241
Chapter 14 Barney & Smith Car Company and the Flood of 1913 261
Chapter 15 St. Paul: The Great Steel Ark of the Apostle 267
Chapter 16 Baptist Car 7: Amazing Grace, the Last of the American Fleet 283
Chapter 17 The End of the Chapel Car Era 305
AppendixFloor Plans of the Chapel Cars 307
Logs of Cars' Journeys and Missionaries 319
Index 367
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
"Inside the heart of the First Baptist Church of Rawlins, Wyoming, literally, is a wooden symbol of a unique era of rail and church history.
"This church was built around a rail chapel car, one of thirteen that followed the railroads west in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Those churches on rails carried men and women of God who were willing to suffer hardships to bring faith and stability to the multiplying rail towns where faith and civilized life struggled to survive.
"To understand why and how those cars came to be and what they accomplished, we must look back to a Rawlins of another time-a wilder, more violent time.
"Rawlins, Wyoming, 1867-The flap of the muddy canvas tent swung open. Through its smoky hole flew the drunken form of a young man, little more than twenty years of age-a Union Pacific railhand, blood spurting from his nostrils, face battered by someone's fist. A farm boy perhaps from Indiana or Ohio, raised on his pa's corn-fed bacon and his ma's
biscuits an' gravy and worn family Bible. As a Union recruit at sixteen, he might have fought valiantly at Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania. Surviving the Civil War that made him a man, he, like so many others, thought workin' on the railroad would bring him fame and fortune. Instead, it had brought him to the vices of this hell-on-wheels town."
from Chapter 1 "Western Railroads: `Hell on Wheels' or Heaven"
Wilma Rugh Taylor is a freelance writer and editor. Her book The Valley of the Blue Heron (1995) won the National Federation of Press Women writing competition.
Norman Thomas Taylor has had over forty years of railroad experience. He is currently restoring Baptist Chapel Car #7, Grace, at Green Lake, Wisconsin.
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