[CBQ] Re: Strauss books

[Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>]

When talking about fine railroad books, particularly about Chicago  
area railroads, there has recently been published one of the very  
best:  the late Ed DeRouen's The Pennsylvania Railroad in Chicago.   
For anybody interested in Chicago railroads, just reading this book  
alone will advance your knowledge and understanding of just how  
Chicago railroads have worked over the years-  by a quantum leap.  It  
is not another Morning Sun (or ilk) un-vetted  picture book, but a  
serious and totally absorbing page turner that advances the art quite  
a ways.

Connections to a railroad do not in any way assure a great book about  
that railroad (Strauss was apparently a live-long Milwaukee Road  
engineer), and in some ways such close employment and/or family  
associations bestow an arrogance that often results in just the  
opposite.  Ed deRouen never worked for the PRR (he worked in the  
utilities industry).  As most of the listers know, he was a joyful and  
prolific Burlington fan.

Denny


Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento





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