By Ada Brownell
IF YOU ENJOYED FOLLOWING
THE TRACKS, PLEASE WRITE A REVIEW AND POST IT ON AMAZON AND GOOD READS.
Questions to give you ideas for a review, or to discuss
with your book club.
When you read my new non-fiction book, Following the Tracks: Life
With the Railroad, what did you expect from such a book?
What caught your interest? The author, the topic, the
location, the history, the characters, an expected theme?
How about the first scene? Was the telegraph operator
fighting for his life in the first pages relevant to the book?
What did you think of the way telegraphers delivered urgent
messages to engineers in the 1950s?
Why were changes necessary that took communication from
telegraph to teletype, and then computers and Centralized Traffic Control?
Why was it necessary
to have an agent-telegrapher in depots in every little town and junction along
the tracks, even after they quit selling passenger train tickets?
How does CTC work and why has it made so many changes in
the railroad operations?
Why would readers cry, laugh, rejoice, and enjoy a book
about railroad tracks, trains, and people? Would you still call the book
“historical?” Why?
© Ada Brownell
Here’s what one of my endorsers wrote:
My family shared this story with the Brownells, as did many
families along the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. As I
read Ada’s book, I was moved to tears, laughter, and prayers as the memories
and old stories came bubbling up from the past. But it was not only the past
that grabbed my attention, it was the assurance that each of us had, has, and
will have, the grace of God on our lives no matter what our circumstances. As
we follow the tracks with a young bride through the mountains, into the desert,
and then to the city, we find proofs that the choice to trust God is never a
mistake. Ada’s concise reporter style
makes this an enjoyable, encouraging journey along the tracks.
--Lucretia Smith, Nurse, Educator, and Railroad Family
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