NEW YORK CENTRAL 2013 CALENDAR


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MORNING SUN BOOKS


These all-color 128-page hardcover books will be available May 1, 2013


THE FINAL YEARS 1980-1996 SANTA FE


CALIFORNIA TEXAS LINES


VOLUME 2: BELEN TO


By Jerry A. Pinkepank


A definitive look back at the last years of this fallen flag. Item# 1474


INDUSTRIAL RAILROADING VOLUME 2 By Stephen M. Timko


Look behind the fences of docks, grain elevators, power plants and other industries where standard rail- road-size locomotives work. Item# 1475


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HERE ARE TWO PLEASANT DISCOVERIES — both books, each describing an aspect of Canadian railroading that is dear to the hearts of those who enjoy railroad stories, especially rail dining. The first, Through the


Window of a Train, is an anthology of the experi- ences of Canadian railroad employees, family mem- bers, travelers, and folk- lorists and poets, edited by Barbra Lange. Britannia Hobbs, daughter of the late William G. Hobbs (1927- 2012), called it to my atten- tion. William Hobbs was a noted Canadian railroad artist (among other accomplish- ments — see the full story at http://canadaartist.ca/More_About_the_ Artist.php). Among the eleven “Railway Em- ployees’ Memories” captured in the book, this remembrance, reprinted with permis- sion, is by Sheldon Oberman (1949-2004): Somewhere Between Here and


There: “We’re on the Super Continental snaking up the Rockies and the dining car is packed for breakfast. We carry our trays high. It don’t matter how heavy they are. We carry our trays high and we got those bowls of porridge, those plates of ham and, bacon and-, pots of cow, two in the water boiled. We got our names for everything and we slip them off with style. We’re a tight crew. Al- ways have been.


“The windows at the tables are like big bright screens. The mountain side is whizzing past. That mountain side is shak- ing and rattling past. It’s looking like a side- ways avalanche with trees and rocks falling


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all past. The Super Continental’s making time.


“But here is this old lady


who’s not touching her ham and scrambled. She just frowns out the window like she’s lost some- thing. Her fingers should be busy with her knife and fork. Her eyes should be searching for


something overdone or


something not done enough. You know how these old folks get. But she is all loose ends. She calls me over. She’s got a ques- tion but she doesn’t want any- one else to hear. So I lean down. “‘Sir,’ she asks, ‘which way is this train moving?’


“I say, ‘West, Ma’am. We’re going due west.’ “‘No,’ she says. ‘I mean, which way is the train moving? Is that the front or the back? I’m going home and I want to know which way it is.’ “Well, that’s one for the books. The old doll is looking straight out the window and can’t figure it out! ‘Ma’am,’ I say, not cracking a smile. I say, ‘You look that way and pretty soon you’re going to see the train coming around a curve. Now if you see it’s the en- gine, that generally means that’s the way we are going. But if it isn’t the engine, if it’s the club car, then that’s the way we’re coming from. Of course, some people just poke out a window and spit to see which way it falls. Just don’t you ever jump outside to take a better look because who knows when you’ll catch up with us again!’ “Well, that does her and I tell the boys about it in the kitchen. That old lady, she’s so used to being in one place all her life that she can’t get used to anything that’s moving like a train. The guys all laugh but there


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