Re: [CBQ] Re: Macomb Switcher

[Michael Matalis <mmatalis@sprynet.com>]

I've been looking for this book for a couple of years now without  
success.  Ebay, Abebooks, Alibris; no one has it.  Apparently since  
it's a recent publication, nobody is selling their copies yet.


Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis
mmatalis@sprynet.com

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>> Funny you should ask.  My son Frank went to Western Illinois at  
>> Macomb, and while there he did the research for a small book he  
>> wrote about the MI&L, published by the WIU Press, entitled "The  
>> Little Road" -- that's how the Macomb papers referred to the MI&L.   
>> The Q of course was the big road.  One of the duties of the Macomb  
>> switcher was to pull the shortline's passenger train the last mile  
>> or so to the Burlington depot.
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>> Unfortunately the book is now out of print.  You can't have my  
>> copy, it's autographed by the author!  Ebay, maybe?
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