Abqfoamer Wrote:
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> That big home-built, two-car gantry rail
> transport/laying contraption is named Elmer
> Gantry, after a scalawag preacher in a popular
> movie played by Burt Lancaster a few years ago,
> replaces 15 guys moosing heavy, 30-foot rail
> "sticks".
The movie was based in some manner on the novel,
Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis and published in 1927. Sinclair Lewis wrote such other novels as
Main Street,
Babbitt,
Arrowsmith,
Dodsworth.
It Can't Happen Here, and others.
The second book that I read that was not required by a teacher or a railroad book was
It Can't Happen Here; the first was
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. My first summer job had an hour lunch and I brown-bagged my lunch and so I had time to read these books.
Brian Norden