From Cab to Caboose: Fifty Years of Railroading

by Joseph A. Noble

Delightfully refreshing account of railroad life before and after the great transition from steam to diesel written by a man who rose from assistant right-of-way agent on the Santa Fe to chief engineer of the Western lines. The author's description of his 50 years on the line brings railroad life alive, whether he is writing of camp cooks or transverse fissures, Buda cars or legal cases, rail kinks or washouts, accidents or strikes. All of his vignettes are tempered by a brand of humor found only in a true railroader. Illustrated with 64 black and white photos. 205 pages with index.

205 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 1964

Reviews

[Ann]

Obviously, am somewhat skewed in my opinion, but this is a droll, interesting book on the topic of railroading in the west in the early part of the 20th century.