Railroad Noir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railroad Noir write by Linda G. Niemann. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Railroad Noir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culled from the 20 years she spent traveling the American West as a freight brakeman and conductor, Linda Grant Niemann's Railroad Noir delves into the darker side of railroading. The 1990s were a time of crisis for workers caught in the breakup of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Niemann's tales of exhaustion, alcoholism, homelessness, and corporate blundering present a revelatory account of railroading life. Photographer Joel Jensen realizes Niemann's vision of the working West with images of cowboy bars, blue motels, and railroaders working in electrical storms, white-outs, and desert heat waves. The result is an honest, gritty, and striking collaboration.
Railroad Voices
Railroad Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railroad Voices write by Linda Niemann. This book was released on 1998. Railroad Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photographs and memoirs interplay to place the reader inside the exciting, changing, and dangerous world of railroad life in America. This collaboration by two of the first women to work as railroad brakemen presents an evocative and honest portrayal of a world few people have access to. Visit http://www.sup.org/railroad.html for a virtual exhibition.
On the Rails
On the Rails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Rails write by Linda Niemann. This book was released on 1996. On the Rails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey--the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her--providing an elegy to a dying trade.
Boomer
Boomer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boomer write by Linda Grant Niemann. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Boomer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A fascinating mix of fact, history, self-confession, self-accusation, and self-forgiveness—a diary of both emotional relationships and travel.” —Pasatiempo This classic account of self-discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann’s travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts—and her true self as well. “Ma[kes] the railroad experience come alive with all its grit, danger, romance, and general outrageousness . . . Possibly the finest book I’ve ever read about the actual experience of working on the railroad.” —Trains Magazine “Niemann has a taut, lyrically restrained but vividly descriptive style, with an observational vigilance befitting a brakeman’s mindset, and her narrative clips along like a boxcar rolling through the yard.” —Bloom Magazine “A remarkable adventure tale, the occupational odyssey of the Ph.D. in literature who immerses herself in blue-collar America.” —Library Journal
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interstate Commerce Commission Reports write by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. This book was released on 1990. Interstate Commerce Commission Reports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
