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An evocative and honest portrayal in words and images of railroad life in America, Railroad Voices is a collaboration by two of the first women to work as railroad brakemen. Linda Niemann hired on the Southern Pacific in 1979 in California, where she continues to work as a conductor for the Union Pacific, and Lina Bertucci hired on the now-defunct Milwaukee Road in 1974. The eighteen-year-old Lina Bertucci used her camera to hold her own in the freightyard, and the resulting fifty-eight photographs in this book present an insider's view of a world few people have access to. This is the true world of work: the face of exhaustion, of hours spent waiting, followed by intense activity, of the outside maze of tracks and house-size boxcars the workers shepherd with their bodies and a two-dollar lantern. We notice what individuals these people are--the clothes they choose to wear, their tattoos, their faces. And they are, of course, looking at Lina, or aware of her presence in their previously all-male sanctuary. Linda Niemann's folkloric memoirs give this environment voice. The railroad for her has become an eighteen-year career and her poetic subject. As the last brakeman hired, Niemann has had to follow the work all over the Southwest, collecting travelers' tales along the way. Her stories carry the images forward in time to the present-day railroad of short crews, no cabooses, and streamlined, downsized operations. She tells the human stories these changes generate, while delighting in the language and details of the craft. Image and text interplay to place the reader inside an exciting, changing, and dangerous world that has for generations been a major part of American culture.… (más)
Linda Niemann (Boomer) and Lina Bertucci, both veterans of working on the railroad (Niemann – Southern Pacific, Bertucci – Milwaukee), team up in this book to provide a written and a visual presentation of the world of modern railroading from the perspective of the people who actually do the work.
Bertucci began her railroad work as a Brakeman on the Milwaukee. From the first day of employment she made it a point to keep her camera tucked inside her bag and ready to record anything of interest. Her photographic record of people, places, and events on the Milwaukee Railroad covers the period of time when the railroads were in decline.
Linda Niemann’s first work was Boomer-Railroad Memoirs which is an account of her working on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The narratives she provides in Railroad Voices consist of additional stories she has to tell about her work on the SP as well as stories from other female railroad workers including Pat Doolette (SP Conductor), Cindy Angelos (Milwaukee Conductor), and Mary Alsip(SP conductor).
Each chapter covers some aspect of the work and is accompanied by a selection of Bertucci’s photographs. The stories, in chapter form, are well written and the photographs that accompany them gives the reader a real sense of “being there”. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in first person accounts of railroad work. See Common Knowledge for an example of the writing style. (Text Length - 72 pages, Pictures – 58 pages, Total Length - 158 pages, includes glossary and benediction.) (Book Dimensions inches LxTxH – 10 3/8” x ¾” x 9”) ( )
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In memory of Josie Cole - Linda Niemann, To all the men and women of the Milwaukee Road - Lina Bertucci
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
My first night back in the Colton yard after ten years was in a summer so hot that Tarahumara children died from the drought in the Sierra Madre of Mexico eight hundred miles south. I was called for a trim job on the midnight shift, sitting on the long bench, lantern in hand, gloves out, safety glasses on, nobody talking to me since I’m sent down here from somewhere else on the region-system board, a company-sweet deal that lets them send me anywhere they’re short twenty days a month – putting me up in some fancy motel. But I’m not wanting to have to break in everywhere all over again after fifteen years on the job. And an old head comes in the door, looks like Abraham Lincoln, the first words out of his mouth – “All right, I admit it I did it to myself. I know I’ll never hear the end of it on this railroad, probably the first time in recorded history anyone has ever kicked a boxcar into his own truck.” “O.K., Lester.” A voice came from a darkened area behind a row of lockers. “How’d you do that?” “Well, I kicked the car pretty good, got it rolling pretty good – too good, in fact, and I was going to chase it down with my truck to tie a break on it. Well, I was crossing over in front of it when the darn truck stalled on the crossing and the boxcar hit it. Dented the crap out of the door.” “Well, where was you at the time?” “I was in the truck. I know. I told the trainmaster, and he just looked at me and said he guessed they could take care of the door, and I said,”That’s all I want.” I really appreciated Lester that night. After that story, a woman switchman from somewhere else was no big deal.
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An evocative and honest portrayal in words and images of railroad life in America, Railroad Voices is a collaboration by two of the first women to work as railroad brakemen. Linda Niemann hired on the Southern Pacific in 1979 in California, where she continues to work as a conductor for the Union Pacific, and Lina Bertucci hired on the now-defunct Milwaukee Road in 1974. The eighteen-year-old Lina Bertucci used her camera to hold her own in the freightyard, and the resulting fifty-eight photographs in this book present an insider's view of a world few people have access to. This is the true world of work: the face of exhaustion, of hours spent waiting, followed by intense activity, of the outside maze of tracks and house-size boxcars the workers shepherd with their bodies and a two-dollar lantern. We notice what individuals these people are--the clothes they choose to wear, their tattoos, their faces. And they are, of course, looking at Lina, or aware of her presence in their previously all-male sanctuary. Linda Niemann's folkloric memoirs give this environment voice. The railroad for her has become an eighteen-year career and her poetic subject. As the last brakeman hired, Niemann has had to follow the work all over the Southwest, collecting travelers' tales along the way. Her stories carry the images forward in time to the present-day railroad of short crews, no cabooses, and streamlined, downsized operations. She tells the human stories these changes generate, while delighting in the language and details of the craft. Image and text interplay to place the reader inside an exciting, changing, and dangerous world that has for generations been a major part of American culture.
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Bertucci began her railroad work as a Brakeman on the Milwaukee. From the first day of employment she made it a point to keep her camera tucked inside her bag and ready to record anything of interest. Her photographic record of people, places, and events on the Milwaukee Railroad covers the period of time when the railroads were in decline.
Linda Niemann’s first work was Boomer-Railroad Memoirs which is an account of her working on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The narratives she provides in Railroad Voices consist of additional stories she has to tell about her work on the SP as well as stories from other female railroad workers including Pat Doolette (SP Conductor), Cindy Angelos (Milwaukee Conductor), and Mary Alsip(SP conductor).
Each chapter covers some aspect of the work and is accompanied by a selection of Bertucci’s photographs. The stories, in chapter form, are well written and the photographs that accompany them gives the reader a real sense of “being there”. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in first person accounts of railroad work. See Common Knowledge for an example of the writing style.
(Text Length - 72 pages, Pictures – 58 pages, Total Length - 158 pages, includes glossary and benediction.)
(Book Dimensions inches LxTxH – 10 3/8” x ¾” x 9”) (