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A slapdash collection of anecdotes and name drops that fails to achieve more than the sum of its parts. One of the designers of the Canton Viaduct was James Whistler's father? Okay, but why does it matter? James Wilkes Booth's brother once had a cottage near the power plant that fed the original New Haven catenary? Who cares? The goal of these asides is, I guess, to give a sense of how the Northeast Corridor is entangled with greater American history, but they're so shallow all they do is make m
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I was really excited to hear that a book was coming out about the Northeast Corridor but, honestly, this was fairly disappointing. Some of the history of the corridor was interesting, but it really felt more like a collection of random anecdotes than a book that had a clear point or an interest in a consistent, detailed review of a topic.
