Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. [Whittlesey House]
Published:
1945
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15683531965
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Seller's Description:
Good. x, 374 pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Songs, Poems, and Ditties, Vocabulary of Railroad Lingo. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Corners bumped and rubbed. This contains some information on Canadian railways. Freeman H. Hubbard (21 April 1894? August 1981) was an American writer known for his articles and books about railroads. He was editor of Railroad Magazine for 42 years, from 1930 until its demise in 1979, with seven years away while he worked as a freelance writer from 1946 to 1953. (The magazine was named Railroad Man's Magazine in 1930, when Hubbard succeeded editor William Edward Hayes, being renamed Railroad Stories in 1932 and, finally, Railroad Magazine in 1937.). He wrote widely about railroad history, legend and lore, including famous personalities such as Casey Jones, John Henry, Jesse James and Kate Shelley. He was Secretary of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Derived from a Kirkus review: From rhymes, stories, dogger biographical and historical backgrounds, this compiles railroad legend and truth with color and interest. Insofar as research can prove, here are the facts of the about Jones, Jesse James, John Henry, etc. the histories and personalities of famous engines; the bravery and heroism of railroad men in disasters, floods, storms, wrecks, train robberies, railroad insignia of inspirational and publicity origin; human interest tales of dogs, childbirth, wartime travel, etc. A must for the switch-happy gentry that is good railroad material.
