Ride Theory reviewed America's Railroad by Robert T. Royem
Interesting, with a terrible layout
3 stars
This is one of those books you might buy at a touristy museum. It's chock-a-block with full-color, captioned photos, inserted higgledy-piggledy where they can do the most damage when you're trying to follow the thread of the main text. There were also several full-page sidebars to further confuse and confound me.
Still, there are quite a few factoids I enjoyed. Did you know that the D&SNG refers to all departures from Durango as "Westbound," even though they're going North? (It's a holdover from when the line was based in Denver.) Or that a grove of Aspen trees is actually a single organism, connected by a single root system?
Bought for $3.50 (half-price) at Friends of the Library, donated to a Little Free Library when I finished.