Railroad Voices: Narratives by Linda Niemann, Photographs by Lina Bertucci
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804732094 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Voices in the Night Gritty, dusty, muddy, ballast-strewn dirt under foot. A coppery feeling in the mouth. Eyes strained and burning, almost too tired to open. Perpetual noise---the incessant squeaking, grinding, thumping and crashing of heavy, lumbering machinery. Break time, and the codgers slumping in straight-back chairs leaned against the wall are all snoring, smoking, or describing their latest sexual conquests. Oily, smoky air stinking of hot grease. The feel, smell, look and sound of heavy industry, all the same day after day, night after night. These are the sensations t. Railroad voices - the real thing Investigator/Firearms Instructor This is one of the best railroad books I have read in my 30+ years in the railroad industry, and I found it difficult to put down. I have shared my copy with my railroad colleagues, including several women, who all said they enjoyed it immensely, and want their own copies.The two women have a gift for capturing the true essence of our industry. Ms. Niemann writes in the language of the trainmen's locker rooms, switch shanties and locomotive cabs, a mixture of railroad slang and profanity, but, that is the way it really is.Lina Bertucci's photos truly convey t. Train to Dystopia James Gerofsky Railroad Voices tells the story of two women encountering railroad life in the final decades of the 20th Century. It's an outlier relative to most railroad literature, which caters to train modelers and enthusiasts, or to historical and academic experts. This book speaks to an artistic and intellectually engaged audience without assuming any railroad interest. The railbuff or historian can come along for the ride, but shouldn't expect that their curiosities and sensibilities will be catered to. Railroad Voices focuses largely on the flesh-and-blood people who
We notice what individuals these people arethe clothes they choose to wear, their tattoos, their faces. The railroad for her has become an eighteen-year career and her poetic subject. Linda Niemann hired on the Southern Pacific in 1979 in California, where she continues to work as a conductor for the Union Pacific, and Lina Bertucci hired on the now-defunct Milwaukee Road in 1974.The eighteen-year-old Lina Bertucci used her camera to hold her own in the freightyard, and the resulting fifty-eight photographs in this book present an insider’s view of a world few people have access to. She tells the human stories these changes generate, while delighting in the language and details of the craft. Her stories carry the images forward in time to the present-day railroad of shor
Niemann's accompanying narrative tells of her experiences as a boomer, someone who moves with the railroad wherever there is work. She describes the lives of her co-workers, her own personal restlessness, and the world of main lines and yards in California towns like Colton, Watsonville, and Bakersfield. . Bertucci contributes 58 memorable black-and-white photographs, starkly revealing the exhaustion and stress of railroading in the faces of her co-workers. The pictures are compelling and the narrative almost poetic. This book is not for those who want to savor the romance of the rails. Instead, it portrays the effects of modern railroading's bureaucracy, schedules, and dangers on its workers. From Library Journal Niemann and Bertucci produced this book from personal experiences over the last 20 years working various railroad jobs, from brakeman to conductor. Essential for collections on railroading and recom