The Milwaukee Road Revisited
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.24 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0893011983 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Shared Experiences I've always heard it is easier to read something when one has a bit of background knowledge about the topic. Perhaps that is why this bock touched me so deeply. Like the author, I had one particular relative whose Milwaukee career spanned 37 years. He wasn't in train service, but his duties as a substation operator provided the "white coal" that propelled the electric locomotives across the Continental Divide and over the other grades on the Rocky Mountain Division. Virtually every summer my parents would pack up the car and drive to whichever substation my uncle was assigned. On rare occasions we travell. "A touching search for days gone by on the Milwaukee Road" according to A Customer. If you've ever lost someone you loved, you know that you treasure the things they loved. Stan Johnson's stepfather worked for the Milwaukee Railroad for 5A touching search for days gone by on the Milwaukee Road If you've ever lost someone you loved, you know that you treasure the things they loved. Stan Johnson's stepfather worked for the Milwaukee Railroad for 53 years. Johnson felt compelled, a few years ago, to see the old places and right-of-way of the abandoned Milwaukee finding, everywhere he went in Montana, Idaho and Washington, a flood of memories of his youth, railroading, electric locomotives, people, stories, history and a rich tapestry of lives and events that the Milwaukee Road represented through Johnson's beloved stepfather. As Johnson retraces the physical route and structures of the Milwaukee, . years. Johnson felt compelled, a few years ago, to see the old places and right-of-way of the abandoned Milwaukee finding, everywhere he went in Montana, Idaho and Washington, a flood of memories of his youth, railroading, electric locomotives, people, stories, history and a rich tapestry of lives and events that the Milwaukee Road represented through Johnson's beloved stepfather. As Johnson retraces the physical route and structures of the Milwaukee, . Grist said Touching Story. A touching story of a warm father-son relationship centered around a shared love of the Milwaukee Road. The details of the placed remembered are vivid and bring me back to when I lived in that area and drove the highways that parallel the old right of way. For those of us who got to go to work with their Dads, this is a special book. You'll love it!
Johnson traces the ways that the Milwaukee Railroad shaped the lives of its employees and their families on its route from Three Forks, Montana, to Spokane, Washington.. Stanley W
The Milwaukee Road Revisited follows author Stanley Johnson's memories of the railroad in the same way that he literally searched out the remains of the Milwaukee Railroad's tacks and depots to find traces of his his stepfather, Frank Fiebelkorn, who worked as a passenger conductor on the Milwaukee Road for 53 years. The Milwaukee Road Revisited also recounts the interviews Johnson had with other milwaukee old-timers, the men who built the railroad and then spent their lifetimes riding and working on it, and who also mourn the loss of the Milwaukee Road." Midwest Book Review. "The Milwaukee Road Re