{"product_id":"burlington-northern-adventures-railroading-in-the-days-of-the-caboose-9781634995870","title":"Burlington Northern Adventures: Railroading in the Days of the Caboose","description":"\u003cb\u003eBrotherton recounts his experiences as brakeman, conductor, and trainmaster on Burlington Northern Railroad.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurlington Northern Adventures relates the personal experiences of the author William J. Brotherton, who went \"railroading\" as a brakeman, conductor, and trainmaster for the Burlington Northern Railroad system from 1979 to 1982. Through his many interesting short stories, Brotherton illustrates what it was like to work for a major railroad company before branch lines, vintage diesel locomotives, and cabooses were phased out. His accounts show what has changed within the railroad industry since then--and what has not.\u003cbr\u003eBrotherton, who grew up around trains in Georgia, takes the reader along on his personal encounters with a railroader's life in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Colorado. Now a lawyer, nothing in the courtroom compares to hanging on a boxcar in thirty-five-below weather working a local in North Dakota. He truly believed he would put in his thirty years with the railroad once he received his promotion to trainmaster with the Colorado \u0026amp; Southern Railway, a part of the Burlington Northern Railroad system--but he soon found that being a trainmaster was a special kind of hell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e America Through Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781634995870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224","brand":"William J. Brotherton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403546718389,"sku":"9781634995870","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6a374ef3-0fcc-42b4-84ec-f34f1824b462.jpg?v=1774969645","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/burlington-northern-adventures-railroading-in-the-days-of-the-caboose-9781634995870","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}