1950 BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD History Book TRAINS DJ
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1950 BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD History Book TRAINS DJ Description : Up for auction is a rare hard cover book "High Green and the Bark Peelers The Story of Engineman Henry A. Beaulieu & His Boston & Maine Railroad" by Neal, R. M. Account of the Boston & Maine Railroad and railroad veteran Henry A. Beaulieu, who worked for the railroad for almost 50 years. 1950. Second Large Printing. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, INc. 275 pages. Dust jacket. Good condition - though the dust jacket is damaged - the bottom of the front is torn off and t is a tear along the spine. Otherwise, book is in very good condition with only light signs of wear. "This book is the story of a railroad - the Boston & Maine. It is an acute and special job of reporting, filled with up-to-date information and comment, but it is something more than that; it has all the liveliness and zest of a younger reporting on a baseball game. It is the kind of book that only an ardent and thoroughly well-informed railfan could have written; yet is it something more, it is the story of the development of transportation and how it changed the folkways of a part of America, and of the personalities involved in the development and that change - men like Henry A. Beaulieu, who after a half-century on the Boston & Maine - still says "I never saw the day I didn't want to work". A grand lively
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