Yet There Isn't a Train I Wouldn't Take: Railway Journeys

by William D. Middleton

Book Overview

Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking....
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Travel"

"Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take" is a collection of stories about favorite train journeys by an inveterate railway enthusiast and train traveler. A half century career as an engineer, Naval officer, and university administrator took Bill...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253336996
• ISBN13: 9780253336996
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

GREAT !!

Great stories of someone having the opportunity to ride the rails, as so many railfans have dreamed of doing. Travel by proxy, when you read the stories contained in this book.