Stan Johnson 360 pages hardcover
This book is capable of making the
oldest train fan remember and the youngest truly envious of such
memories, as it describes in detail what it was like to ride more than
half-way across the country from Chicago to Tacoma in 1941, the last
year such trains ran. A 1941 train trip from Chicago to Tacoma combines
sights, sounds, historical asides, and behind-the-scenes operations of a
railroad gone forever. Hundreds of photographs, charts, diagrams, floor
plans, dining car menus, and reproduced timetables of the time augment
the story.
