The Well-Dressed Hobo : The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains /

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Growing up in the bustling railroad town of Norfolk, Virginia, and joining his conductor grandfather on overnight runs, future Fortune journalist Rush Loving was enchanted with railroads at an early age. In this extraordinary inside look at eight decades of the railroad industry and some of its grea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loving, Rush (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Loving, Rush.
Railroads.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > Pictorial.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > General.
Railroads > United States > Biography.
Railroads > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A mix of love and luck
  • Rumbling up the horseshoe
  • Averell Harriman and his Streamliner
  • Sin and the aspiring reporter
  • Al Perlman buys a hill
  • The country boy who as King of Florida
  • Wooing bankers with a railway car
  • The locomotive that sashayed
  • The "token yokel" meanders north
  • The biggest railroad story of them all
  • "The greatest thing since sex and watermelon"
  • The merger that worked
  • The dinner debate with Graham Claytor
  • The steadfast Colonel and the unsteady rock
  • "Who knows Hays Watkins?"
  • A modern Annie Oakley takes on Lou Menk
  • The lawyer's son from Buffalo
  • "Hays must no know"
  • J.B. Hunt takes a ride on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
  • Two empty limousines
  • "They nod off regularly on the job"
  • Dejà vu once more
  • Their greatest task.

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