All Aboard for Christmas
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810956144 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Christmas, when everyone liked Ike!" according to David C. Klinger. What a charming, evocative look at the way Christmases used to be -- people bustling home for the holidays, filled with brightly-colored packages and good cheer, alighting from Pullman cars at snowbound New England railroad stations. Today, we order our products online, grouse about the holiday traffic on choked Interstate highways, and suffer the indignities of overcrowded airport. Joe Hohmann said Excellent!. I love Christmas and I love trains, and this book brought the two together better than I had hoped. People traveling on trains and people working on trains recall their memories of Christmas back in the "good old days". While I'm also a "toy train nut", I was glad that only one chapter was spent on that subject. I have plenty of books about toy train history and nostalgia.. Fun book for this father-son book team I found this on eBay and located a much less expensive copy via Amazon used. It's a pleasant little book. If you like trains, Christmas and history you should like this. It has quite a few illustrations, some are smallish and others take up entire pages. My three year old son loves it; he looks at all of the pictures and announces gleefully "choo choo" or "ho-ho."The text is not ba
Christopher Jennison has written or cowritten seven books on sports, including Yankee Stadium and Pennants and Pinstripes. An avid collector of railroading memorabilia, he is a senior editor at the Guildford Press in New York.
All Aboard for Christmas is the ultimate gift book and stocking stuffer for lovers of this holiday, its customs, and its collectibles. This heartwarming book of stories, poems, and pictures brings back joyous memories of holiday train rides, wondrous homecomings, and clicking toy trains beneath the tree. AUTHOR BIO: Christopher Jennison has written or cowritten seven books on sports, including Yankee Stadium and Pennants and Pinstripes. Few childhood images are more enduring than Christmas and trains. When we were children-at least in our imaginations-it always snowed at Christmas, the trains were always on time, and at the end of our holiday journeys grandparents always awaited us with smothering hugs and piles of presents. Vintage magazine covers from Railroad, The New Yorker, and The Saturday Evening Post; Minnie and Mickey Mouse in Christmas attire aboard a train; and original Lionel Train advertisements dating from the 1950s are only a few of the nostalgia-filled images, many never before published, that illustrate this Yuletide anthology. An avid collector of railroading memorabilia, he is a senior editor at the Guildford Press in New York.. In the spirit of
An avid collector of railroading memorabilia, he is a senior editor at the Guildford Press in New York. . About the Author Christopher Jennison has written or cowritten seven books on sports, including Yankee Stadium and Pennants and Pinstripes