George H. Drury (–2013)
Author of The train-watcher's guide to North American railroads
About the Author
Works by George H. Drury
The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged Since 1930 (1985) 63 copies
Southern Pacific in the Bay Area: The San Francisco-Sacramento-Stockton Triangle (Golden Years of Railroading) (1996) 23 copies
Santa Fe in the Mountains: Three Passes of the West : Raton, Cajon, and Tehachapi (Golden Years of Railroading) (1995) 21 copies
New York Central in the Hudson Valley: The Water Level Route in Steam and Diesel (Golden Years of Railroading) (1995) 21 copies
Confessions of a Train-Watcher: Four Decades of Railroad Writing by David P. Morgan (1997) 20 copies, 1 review
Union Pacific Across Sherman Hill: Big Boys, Challengers and Streamliners (Golden Years of Railroading) (1999) 12 copies
The Railfan Guide to France 1 copy
Associated Works
American Shortline Railway Guide: Facts, Figures, and Locomotive Rosters for over 500 Short Lines (Railroad Reference) (1991) — Editor, some editions — 65 copies
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- Date of death
- 2013-06-21
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- journalist
Librarian (Kalmbach Publishing Co.0 - Organizations
- Kalmbach Publications
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Wisconsin, USA
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Confessions of a train-watcher : four decades of railroad writing : from the pages of Trains magazine by George H. Drury
Confessions of a Train-Watcher is a collection of essays written by David Morgan between 1953 and 1987 during his tenure as the editor of Trains Magazine. The essay are grouped into four sections – Train-watching, Reporting on the industry, Travel, and Essays and reminiscence.
The section on Train-watching opens with Mr. Morgan’s description of his first encounters with trains as a boy and the anticipation, excitement, and letdown of experiencing the wait, the arrival, and the departure show more of the local train on its daily trip through his small town of Monticello, Georgia in the 1930’s and it ends with his 1957 essay which is source of the book title. In that essay he describes how he converted his hobby of train watching into a full time job by becoming the editor of Trains.
Reporting on the industry includes articles about technical developments (Super-Power, The diesel that did it), important people (Can Mr. B Save Miss Katy?, A conversation with A.E. Perlman), characters (The railfan, Why boys leave home), and various other aspects of the railroad scene.
Travel is just that – articles about Mr. Morgan’s rail travel experiences in the U.S. and other countries. Essays and reminiscence is a collection of Mr. Morgan’s thoughts and observations on topics as diverse as Cincinnati Union Terminal, his love affair with the L&N, the railroads on-again off-again interest in electrification, and a guest article by Wake Hoagland extolling the virtues of the railroad advertising agents (Tractive effort of the adjective).
The essays vary in length from 1 to 9 pages which, given the dimensions of the book and the font size, translates into normal book size page lengths of 1 to 18 pages. The essays are well written and range from the informative and technical to the philosophical and humorous. If you like reading about trains, I think you will enjoy this book. See Common Knowledge for some quotes from the book. (Text Length - 160 pages, Total Length - 160 pages.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH - 11.25 x.5 x 8.25) show less
The section on Train-watching opens with Mr. Morgan’s description of his first encounters with trains as a boy and the anticipation, excitement, and letdown of experiencing the wait, the arrival, and the departure show more of the local train on its daily trip through his small town of Monticello, Georgia in the 1930’s and it ends with his 1957 essay which is source of the book title. In that essay he describes how he converted his hobby of train watching into a full time job by becoming the editor of Trains.
Reporting on the industry includes articles about technical developments (Super-Power, The diesel that did it), important people (Can Mr. B Save Miss Katy?, A conversation with A.E. Perlman), characters (The railfan, Why boys leave home), and various other aspects of the railroad scene.
Travel is just that – articles about Mr. Morgan’s rail travel experiences in the U.S. and other countries. Essays and reminiscence is a collection of Mr. Morgan’s thoughts and observations on topics as diverse as Cincinnati Union Terminal, his love affair with the L&N, the railroads on-again off-again interest in electrification, and a guest article by Wake Hoagland extolling the virtues of the railroad advertising agents (Tractive effort of the adjective).
The essays vary in length from 1 to 9 pages which, given the dimensions of the book and the font size, translates into normal book size page lengths of 1 to 18 pages. The essays are well written and range from the informative and technical to the philosophical and humorous. If you like reading about trains, I think you will enjoy this book. See Common Knowledge for some quotes from the book. (Text Length - 160 pages, Total Length - 160 pages.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH - 11.25 x.5 x 8.25) show less
I read the first 51 pages and they arewell done. The rest goes by railroad to railroad in alphabetic sequence. I consider this a reference book.
Good, but somewhat out of date
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