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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Rocky's Rail: A Spokane Division Trainman, 1960-2004

Rocky's Rail: A Spokane Division Trainman, 1960-2004

Langlot, John E.
McCulloch, Mac

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralTrainsRegional: Pacific Northwest

Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 1735174106
ISBN13: 9781735174105
Publisher: Yakt Pub
Published: Jan 1 2020
Pages: 364
Weight: 3.05
Height: 1.02 Width: 8.82 Depth: 11.26
Language: English

Consummate trainman John Langlot's career coincided with a tumultuous era in railroad history. He started with Great Northern at Hillyard (Spokane, Washington) as a brakeman, spending his early years on the Wenatchee-Oroville route. He was promoted to conductor in 1968. With the 1970 completion of the Burlington Northern merger, his work territory expanded. He retired in 2004 and now serves as a director and vice president of the Great Northern Railway Historical Society. Rocky's Rail recounts his railroading experiences from 1960 through 2004, a period of sweeping technological change. His stories provide a rare first-person view of the craft of trainman. He also summarizes corporate-level decisions and their local impacts. In addition, the book offers a geographically arranged operational overview of the Great Northern Railway's Spokane Division in the 1960s.

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