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Consummate trainman John Langlot's career coincided with a tumultuous era in railroad history. He started with Great Northern at Hillyard (Spokane, Washington) as a brakeman, spending his early years on the Wenatchee-Oroville route. He was promoted to conductor in 1968. With the 1970 completion of the Burlington Northern merger, his work territory expanded. He retired in 2004 and now serves as a director and vice president of the Great Northern Railway Historical Society. Rocky's Rail recounts his railroading experiences from 1960 through 2004, a period of sweeping technological change. His stories provide a rare first-person view of the craft of trainman. He also summarizes corporate-level decisions and their local impacts. In addition, the book offers a geographically arranged operational overview of the Great Northern Railway's Spokane Division in the 1960s.

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9781735174105

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[Rocky's Rail] is a great book, we recommend it. --Pacific Western Rail Systems

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John E. Langlot worked for the Great Northern, and BNSF at Spokane for 45 years. Mac McCulloch received his MBA from the University of California, Berkley in 1983. He grew up in Wenatchee and worked as a clerk for the W-O during the early part of his four-decade railroad industry career.

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