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Railroad Voices

by Niemann, Linda & Bertucci, Lina

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0804732094
ISBN 13
9780804732093
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Stanford, Californis, USA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 158 pages b/w photos - slightly bent - An evocative and honest portrayal in words and images of railroad life in America, Railroad Voices is a collaboration by two of the first women to work as railroad brakemen. 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. This is the true world of work: the face of exhaustion, of hours spent waiting, followed by intense activity, of the outside maze of tracks and house-size boxcars the workers shepherd with their bodies and a two-dollar lantern. We notice what individuals these people are the clothes they choose to wear, their tattoos, their faces. And they are, of course, looking at Lina, or aware of her presence in their previously all-male sanctuary.

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Train World Pty Ltd AU (AU)
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Title
Railroad Voices
Author
Niemann, Linda & Bertucci, Lina
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
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Good
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Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0804732094
ISBN 13
9780804732093
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Place of Publication
Stanford, Californis, USA
Date Published
1998
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