My Life with Trains: Memoir of a Railroader (Railroads Past and Present) - Hardcover

McClellan, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253024005 ISBN 13: 9780253024008

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Named one of the "75 People You Should Know" by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry’s titans. An iconic and innovative executive, McClellan participated in the creation of both Amtrak and Conrail and worked for the Norfolk Southern, the New York Central, US Railway Association, and the Federal Railroad Administration. My Life with Trains combines a world-class photographer’s love of railroading with the insights of a government and railroad official. The book provides a short historical overview of the changes in the industry, recounts McClellan’s experience at various railroads, and offers personal reflections on a lifetime of working with and chasing trains. Expertly detailed with over 250 stunning color photographs, My Life with Trains covers sixty years as observed by a legendary railroad strategist.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim McClellan was a veteran of the railroad industry.

Review:

McClellan covers his wide-ranging professional life, copiously illustrated with his own color photos . . . often taken from his privileged perch in either the locomotive cab or from the rear vestibule. McClellan has left us a vivid memoir of a railroad life well lived.

(Classic Trains)

Jim’s recollection of events and the people―the human as well as organizational tensions―is well balanced and accurate. If you are interested in railroad economics and leadership issues, this book should be in your library. Jim McClellan’s memoirs provide a series of valuable history lessons, not just for us older folks, but also for those who face the next 30 to 40 years of uncertainty and opportunity.

(Railway Age)

The personal observations of a life-long railroader combined with dozens of color photographs make for great railfan reading. (S Gaugian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0253024005
• ISBN 13: 9780253024008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336