RECOMMENDED READING.........................
I just got my copy of this book recommended by Pat McKnight -
Steamtown Supt. Great stuff AND it's got some of my fotos of the final days
of the EL passenger service.
I first met the author as an undergrad at SUNY Binghamton where I was
going to school on the GI Bill while working on the ELs' Syracuse Division.
Al really got into RRs and one of the chapters describes riding #6 with our
girlfriends as we descended the Poconos into the Delaware river valley &
rode thru the watergap. What an experience.
Regards to all,
Walter E. Smith
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Pat_McKnight_@_nps.gov>
To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:32 AM
Subject: (erielack) Upcoming Book, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the
Soul of Preservation by Al Runte
> Just saw a review for the book, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the
> Soul
> of Preservation by Al Runte. The title is intriguing, and I know there is
> some Erielack content in the book. I hope to get a copy of the book soon
> and I hope to give my personal review for the list. Check out the link
> below for the review:
>
> http://www.inlander.com/localnews/345981435910561.php
>
>
> Patrick McKnight
> Historian/Archivist
> Steamtown NHS
> 570-340-5193
>
> We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
> to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
> possible.-Alan Bloom
>
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