To give away to a good home: I was at a church rummage sale today, and bought a brand new, still shrink-wrapped, soft cover copy of Leaders Count, the Story of BNSF Railway, by Lawerence H. Kaufman. It set me back exactly 50 cents. I have read this book, and it is a good one. I will mail it to the first person who posts on this thread that he would like the book. I'll even pay the postage. Anybody interested?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Yep, very interested indeed.
You have my email address....
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Great! Can you PM me a mailing address? I'll ship it out Monday.
edblysardYep, very interested indeed
zardoz edblysardYep, very interested indeedI'll call your 'very', and raise you an 'extremely'.
Murphy Siding zardoz edblysardYep, very interested indeed I'll call your 'very', and raise you an 'extremely'. Zardoz- Ed was too quick for you there. But, I've got a deal for you: I found another copy I had purchased with a box of books on the cheap. It has a slightly ripped up cover. If you can look beyond that, I'd be happy to ,mail it to you. PM me an address. I'm going to the post office anyway. I have about a gazillion books that I need to thin down. I may be giving some others away as well.
zardoz edblysardYep, very interested indeed I'll call your 'very', and raise you an 'extremely'.
I'll call your 'very', and raise you an 'extremely'.
Got anything on South Dakota that needs thinning?
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ButchKnouse Murphy Siding zardoz edblysardYep, very interested indeed I'll call your 'very', and raise you an 'extremely'. Zardoz- Ed was too quick for you there. But, I've got a deal for you: I found another copy I had purchased with a box of books on the cheap. It has a slightly ripped up cover. If you can look beyond that, I'd be happy to ,mail it to you. PM me an address. I'm going to the post office anyway. I have about a gazillion books that I need to thin down. I may be giving some others away as well. Got anything on South Dakota that needs thinning?
Murphy,
Tell you what...send me the copy with the rip and send Big Z the clean copy...because as soon as I read it, I think I will post it here in the same manner as you have, make it sorta a round robin book, first taker gets it as long as they agree to pass it on when done.
Sound like a plan to you?
edblysard Murphy, Tell you what...send me the copy with the rip and send Big Z the clean copy...because as soon as I read it, I think I will post it here in the same manner as you have, make it sorta a round robin book, first taker gets it as long as they agree to pass it on when done. Sound like a plan to you?
Murphy SidingI haven't heard from Zardoz yet
Z
Ed & Zardoz- As of 9:00 this morning, both packages are in the care of the US Postal Service. Keep an eye out for them.
Cool deal,
Thanks again.
Ed
Houston Ed as soon as your done send the book to me I will pm you my Address.
edblysard Cool deal, Thanks again.
Book arrived yesterday morning...I am about 1/2 way through it...interesting read in some places.
Will send it on to Ed Benton as soon as I get it finished.
(yesterday was an oddity, an entire day with nothing to do, nothing to fix or repair, and no softball games to drop the daughters off at)
Just wait until you become an empty nester- you'll have to find a hobby.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
No fair! You had a day off, and no honey-do list? Oh, wait. You probably don't have to bag leaves and get the snowblower ready for the season right now-do you?
ButchKnouse I have about a gazillion books that I need to thin down. I may be giving some others away as well.Got anything on South Dakota that needs thinning?
Murphy Siding No fair! You had a day off, and no honey-do list? Oh, wait. You probably don't have to bag leaves and get the snowblower ready for the season right now - do you?
Hey, Murphy - tell me again why we choose to live in the ''snowbelt'' ?
Hey, it snowed here last year...we got a whole 1/4" for about two hours...nasty stuff, made the palm trees look funny.
Plant Texas Live Oaks..they dont drop their leaves till march or april.
Paul_D_North_Jr tell me again why we choose to live in the ''snowbelt'' ?
zardoz Paul_D_North_Jr tell me again why we choose to live in the ''snowbelt'' ? Rattlesnakes, scorpions, alligators, crocodiles, mosquitos 365x24.........
Them little critters just make it interesting...
You forgot hurricanes and 110 degree summers.
Murphy SidingYou forgot tornadoes.
We get enough in the way of tornados and severe storms here in SE Wisconsin, although not nearly as many as the rest of Wisconsin, and nowhere near the number that occur in Oklahoma and Texas.
I would think that you get enough of them in South Dakota as well: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/stalley.gif
Story of a S.D. tornado: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0627_030627_tvtornadochaser.html
zardoz Murphy SidingYou forgot tornadoes. We get enough in the way of tornados and severe storms here in SE Wisconsin, although not nearly as many as the rest of Wisconsin, and nowhere near the number that occur in Oklahoma and Texas. I would think that you get enough of them in South Dakota as well: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/stalley.gif Story of a S.D. tornado: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0627_030627_tvtornadochaser.html
Murphy Siding To give away to a good home: I was at a church rummage sale today, and bought a brand new, still shrink-wrapped, soft cover copy of Leaders Count, the Story of BNSF Railway, by Lawerence H. Kaufman. It set me back exactly 50 cents. I have read this book, and it is a good one. I will mail it to the first person who posts on this thread that he would like the book. I'll even pay the postage. Anybody interested?
I'll be done with my copy ( the 'gently used' one) in about a week. Anybody else interested? Same terms as above, providing you're willing to do the same for someone else.....
I'll give it a whirl. YGPM comin' at ya!
Dan
I am 1/2 way maybe a little more thru it..learned a lot os stats on BN and its merger railroads, but the leader part seems to be a bit lacking...so far, the author has simply included a few paragraphs highlighted and boxed about the men he considered the leaders, a simply, "he worked here for this many years, then here for this many years, before coming to BN" type of blurb...nothing delving deep into what made them the leaders he says they are.
The book does contain a running history of the American railroads rise and fall, but only in the most economical terms, again, nothing too insightful and nothing surprising.
I was expecting more of an in depth look at folks like Lou Menk...but I loved the quote at the beginning of chapter 8, credited to Richard M. Bressler in 1980, when he was new to the railroad industry and culture.
"This was a whole different world.
In so may ways, it's like stepping back into the 19th century."
He is right, not so much from a technological point, althought some of what we do has not changed all that much in the last century...but more from a management style and business style.
There still is the entitled class and the peasants, although it seems to be getting somewhat better..
Done with book, on its way to Ed Benton this morning.
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