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Freeman H. Hubbard (1894–1981)

Autor de American Heritage Junior Library: Great Days of the Circus

15 Obras 185 Miembros 3 Reseñas

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Incluye los nombres: Hubbard Freeman, Freeman Hubbard

Obras de Freeman H. Hubbard

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1894-04-21
Fecha de fallecimiento
1981-08
Lugar de sepultura
Pennsylvania, USA
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Ocupaciones
editor (Railroad Magazine)

Miembros

Reseñas

P 6 Cripple Creek Hogger Narrow Gauge
P 23 Rails in Khaki WWII Railroad solders
P 56 Amesbury, MA picture
P 106 Rantoul IL 1800 population to 30,000 in Chanute Air Core Base
P 114 Full page cartoon back in the days
P 140 Full page picture 2 foot gauge steam (good)
 
Denunciada
Freshett | Mar 3, 2018 |
Railroad Avenue, subtitled Great Stories and Legends of American Railroading, is a collection of articles about railroading in the United States in the 19th and the first half of the 20th Century. The subject matter includes histories, tales, poems, some pictures and illustrations, and a dictionary of railroad slang.

The histories include the obvious short biographies of individuals like Casey Jones, Jawn Henry, and Jesse James as well as individuals like Kate Shelley (a 15 year old farm girl who saved a passenger train from certain destruction) and Joseph A. Broady (“Steve” in the song “The Wreck of old 97”).

There are chapters on such diverse topics as the Andrews Raid, trackside graves, raildogs (and other adopted railroad pets), the crane with the broken neck – an interesting sidelight of the great strike of 1894, the origins of railroad names and logos, the Johnstown flood, the Great Hinckley fire, quick sketches of railroad worker heroism, the Chatsworth wreck, and The Kid in Upper 4; the last being a short discussion of what it was like to travel on passenger trains in the U.S. during World War II and a history of the ad campaigns mounted by the railroads at the time to emphasize the fact that you, as a non-combatant civilian, were not a priority.

The book was published in 1945 and along with A Treasury of Railroad Folklore and Slow Train to Yesterday, became one of the three best known and most widely read books about railroads in the immediate post World War II period in the U.S. The book has aged well and, while more recent research has modified or changed some of the presented facts of railroad history, it is still a very good read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in an overview of the human side of the railroad experience. (Text Length - 367 pages, Total Length - 374 pages. Includes index)
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Denunciada
alco261 | otra reseña | May 12, 2012 |
A superb collection of US railroad folklore, including a whole chapter on Casey Jones, and a lot of railroad slang. Very interesting and enjoyable.
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John5918 | otra reseña | Oct 29, 2010 |

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Obras
15
Miembros
185
Popularidad
#117,260
Valoración
4.0
Reseñas
3
ISBNs
5

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