Railroad Semantics #2: Oregon Trunk, Fallbridge, Brooklyn, Cascade, Black Butte, Valley Subs

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Aaron Dactyl is a photo journalist who describes himself as a 'hobo'. He has spent the last decade travelling around the US by freight train, here he describes the summer he spent riding trains between Portland and Northern California. From the exhausting waits in sparse canyons and breezy summer rides into Eugene, Aaron makes this journey into a grand adventure. Dactyl also includes fascinating local articles and photos about the railroads: shipping rubbish to landfills by train, Junction City's lawsuit against the rail company and a horrific encounter with a landslide.

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"Credit must be given to Dactyl for bringing it alive with a writing style that mixes enough railroad lingo with some pretty vivid passages of the scenery, the people and the towns he encounters along the way." --www.ReglarWiglar.blogspot.com
"Aaron Dactyl's living hobo history periodical/book includes adventures, diaries, clippings, and fascinating graphics." --www.RoctoberReviews.blogspot.com
"This book has the distinction of being a selection for Best American Travel Writing 2012 and it's easy to see why with its vivid descriptions of the rail system and outlying towns and beautiful sets from Oregon to Northern Northern California." --www.PoopSheetFoundation.com

Author Bio

Aaron Dactyl is an adventurer, railroad hobo, and train enthusiast. He regularly travels by hopping trains and is the author ofRailroad Semantics #1. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.