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Title: The Milwaukee Road Olympian: A Ride to Remember by Stanley Johnson ISBN: 0-9643647-7-8 Publisher: Museum of North Idaho Publications Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fabulous journey
Comment: This is truley an amazing book. The true story of a cross country journey from Chicago to Tacoma on the fabled Milwaukee Road's Olympian in 1941 told thought the eyes of a 13 year old! The book is extensively illustrated and covers each mile of the journey arranged in the order of the journey. What is nice is the freshness, innocence and wonder of the journey - just what you would expect from a boy in love with the Milwaukee Road. As an additional treat we get the interactions of the railroad employees with the author Stan Johnson. Particularly memorable is Clarence Williams the sleeping car porter. Filled with detail and railroadiana - it just like being on the journey yourself. A must read for anyone who would like to enjoy travel as it used to be.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Story of a Boy's ride on a Great Train
Comment: Back when railroads were king, a boy's first trip alone on a train was a big step to manhood: symbolic of great trust by parents, not only in the boy, but in the railroad. Those days are gone. Stan Johnson, however, relives his own first journey on the Milwaukee Road's crack passenger train, the Olympian, on its transcontinental journey from Chicago to Seattle. This book nicely combines Johnson's detailed recollections with the adult author's appreciation for the history of the land through which the train passed. Each historical or geological vignette, though, quickly passes and the trip resumes through the wide eyes of a boy on his first trip alone, recalling each station, each dinner, the porters, the observation cars, Milwaukee steam power, the Milwaukee's mighty Quill drive electrics, the sleeping compartments, myriad details of trains and places.
Johnson is an excellent writer, this was a great train, and this is a terrific story with outstanding illustrations and photographs recalling the history of the Milwaukee. The Olympian is gone. The Milwaukee Road is gone. Johnson's book is a fond rememberance of a magnificent time in this railroad's, and this young boy's, life.
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Title: The Milwaukee Road Revisited by Stanley W. Johnson ISBN: 0893011983 Publisher: University of Idaho Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Milwaukee Road in Idaho: A Guide to Sites and Locations Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Stanley W. Johnson ISBN: 0972335609 Publisher: Museum of North Idaho Publications Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Milwaukee Road Depots: 1856 Through 1954 Photo Archive (Photo Archive) by Kim D. Tschudy ISBN: 1583880402 Publisher: Iconografix Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years by August William Derleth, Roger H. Grant ISBN: 0877458014 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: New York's Pennsylvania Stations by Hilary Ballon, Norman McGrath, Marilyn Taylor ISBN: 0393730786 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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