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Praise for Train
Engaging... lyrical... keenly observed.
The New York Times Book Review
Train is such a pleasure to read, elegant, deeply informed and smart, full of knowledge-bearing sentences, and prose so companionable and rich in insight that it is as if its author were at your shoulder, taking you along with him. What an enjoyable journey. I will never hear the far off moan of a train in the night without thinking of it, and I know of no higher praise one can give a book. Tom Zoellner is quickly making himself a reputation as a man of wide and eclectic interests, and oh, my! Can he write!
Richard Bausch, author of Peace
This is one of those all-too-rare books that have so much to them.
The Washington Times
[Train is] a gracefully written meditation on trainspast, present, and future.... Part travelogue, as he rides seven trains that shaped the modern world; part personal memoir, as he describes the people he met along the way; and part history of trains, from their origin to their impact on societies around the world and their vital role in the fast-forward twenty-first century.
LA Weekly
[Train], rich with history and local color, is a mesmerizing read for anyone interested in the impact of trains on the environment, politics, economics, and daily life around the world today.
Library Journal
Train makes for fascinating reading.... The authors easy, breezy style will keep readers chugging along.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Zoellner illustrates how the modern era was ushered in and strapped in place by railroads, and how trainsthe reality and the ideacontinue to shape the world as we understand it.... Train is by turns lyrical, powerful, romantic, transporting, and rich.
Phoenix New Times
[An] exuberant celebration of these mammoth wheeled machines... An absorbing and lively reflection on an enduring marvel.
Booklist
A rousing around-the-world paean to the rumble of the rails.
Kirkus Reviews
Enchanting and informative.
New York Post
[An] absorbing round-the-world journey... [a] rollicking express ride.
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Tom Zoellner is the author of four previous nonfiction books, including A Safeway in Arizona, Uranium, and The Heartless Stone. He is an associate professor of English at Chapman University and lives in Los Angeles.
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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014
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Copyright 2014 by Tom Zoellner
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Excerpt from City of New Orleans by Steve Goldman. Al Bunetta d/b/a Jurisdad Music o/b/o itself & Turnpike Tom Music. Used with permission.
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:
Zoellner, Tom.
Train : riding the rails that created the modern world : from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief / Tom Zoellner.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-698-15139-0
1. RailroadsHistory. 2. Railroad travelHistory. I. Title.
HE1021.Z64 2014
385.09dc23 2013036816
Cover design: Nick Misani
Cover art: Netherlands Indian State Railways Java Night-Limited, courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG,PPMSCA-24307
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The inventor, bridge engineer James Curran, never skied himself. He took his inspiration from overhead conveyor belts in South America that hauled bananas from the dockside to a ships hold.
Also by Tom Zoellner
A Safeway in Arizona
Uranium
The Heartless Stone
An Ordinary Man (with Paul Rusesabagina)
VIKING
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Group (USA) LLC
375 Hudson Street
New York, New York 10014
USA | Canada | UK | Ireland | Australia | New Zealand | India | South Africa | China
penguin.com
A Penguin Random House Company
First published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Tom Zoellner
Excerpt from City of New Orleans by Steve Goldman. Al Bunetta d/b/a Jurisdad Music o/b/o itself & Turnpike Tom Music. Used with permission.
Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Zoellner, Tom.
Train : riding the rails that created the modern world : from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief / Tom Zoellner.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-698-15139-0
1. RailroadsHistory. 2. Railroad travelHistory. I. Title.
HE1021.Z64 2014
385.09dc23 2013036816n
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My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends Ill not be knowing,
Yet there isnt a train I wouldnt take,
No matter where its going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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