Just one restless rider
Subtitle: reflections on trains and travel
By: Carlos A. Schwantes.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780826218599
Subjects: Schwantes, Carlos A., -- 1945- -- Travel; Railroad travel -- United States -- History; Railroads -- United States -- History; United States -- Description and travel
Description: "A memoir, lavishly illustrated with the author's own photos, of train travel along the legendary rails of America reflecting a lifetime's love of observing and riding trains while tracing the evolution of American passenger trains from the 1950s to the present"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Not so long ago; title: Where water meets rail; title: The view from the American orient express; title: Mother of all railways; title: The train gods must be crazy; title: Cathedrals of commerce; title: Smokestacks, skyscrapers, and the railroad landscape; title: Steel wheels on steel rails; title: The trouble with trains; title: Railroad art and the ephemera collector.