books by Rogers E. M. Whitaker

books by Rogers E. M. Whitaker

books:

Rogers E. M. Whitaker

All Aboard With E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Buff (Kodansha Globe)

Rogers E. M. Whitaker, Tony Hiss

Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997

An infectiously enjoyable ode to the joys of train travel
I was the editor of the greatly expanded 1997 edition of this railroading classic of the 1970s. E.M. Frimbo was the alter ego of Whitaker, a writer who spent more than 50 years at the New Yorker, one of the original coterie that included A.J. Liebling, Joseph ...

All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo, World's Greatest Railroad Buff
Rogers E. M. Whitaker

Viking, 1974

E. M. Frimbo, as a railroad buff, traveled 2,334,000 miles on different trains, train styles, and to different places. The travesl took over 60 years. Many of his travels were quite adventurous such as riding the famous Trans-Siberian Railway, the Contessa along the Pacific coastline, and all the railways to be able to cross the southern part of ...