Didn't get all the Q 'stuff' you wanted for Christmas?
Don't have "Granger Country" on your bookshelf?
Well I can help on both accounts by offering an excellent
condition 1st Edition to the best offer rcvd by Jan. 1.
Why buy a copy? Published in 1949 by Little, Brown & Co. of Boston,
a mainstream publisher, it remains the ONLY social history of a RR
(another Burlington 1st!)
Authors (they call themselves Editors & Compilers) were Stanly
Pargellis, Librarian of the Newberry Library & Lloyd Lewis, editor of
the Newberry News & a prominent Chicago newspaperman & author as well.
The 2 men had full access to the Burlington archives @ the Newberry
AND full cooperation of CB&Q mgt. In nearly 250 pages & with over
425 photos & prints, they illustrate & comment on what the Burlington
meant to 'grangers' & their families over the preceding century.
Learn how Doane College got its name, see a threshing machine
unloaded from a Q flat, the massive fueling station for WOOD at
Aurora, an 1891 playing card and track being laid on the CB&N.
Toward the end there is a documented journey of a farmwife taking a
Zephyr from Galesburg to Chicago for a day's shopping AND a 43 photo
feature entitled 'Behind the streamlines' showing Q emp's doing such
things as ironing linens, heading to dinner on a MOW train, mining
coal @ the Q's mine in Valier and filing waybills. Yes, there are
photos of locos, frt & pass cars & depots but the strength of the
book is recreating what 'Burlington Country' was (for those of you
too young or not living in God's country!)
Best offer by Jan. 1 gets this excellent condition hardcopy (red &
black with silver Budd-like 'fluting' across the top). I'll even
throw in a copy of the Q's promo to Emp's offering them the book for
$4 (bookstores sold it for $5). Email me off-list with questions or
to get my phone # for a personal touch. Season's Greetings! Gerald
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