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Author: Dick Seelye
Date: 12-25-2007 - 13:38

JOHN McPHEE's "Uncommon Carriers", FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

Particularly "Coal Train"; Black Thunder to Plant Scherer

You already have the maps and the locomotive photos.

Plant Scherer has an excellent website

Three and a half trains a calendar day, bottom dumped.

(previously published in New Yorker Magazine)

Stories about long-haul trucking, lobsters, fishing, Western Rivers

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  Book recommendation Dick Seelye 12-25-2007 - 13:38
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