About this Book: |
|
These drawings and kodolithic prints illustrate railroad and interurban shop life as I knew it and lived it in the days of steam and of trolley cars. Today, in 1972, these scenes have all but disappeared, and so these sketches have been made from memory. I have made no real attempt to be technically correct in all respects, but to recapture for a moment some memories of those long ago times.
|
About the Author: |
|
Hugh F. Dennett was many things to many people--a gentleman, artist, practical thinker, dreamer, tinkerer, reader, teacher, boss. He grew up near the railroad yards of The Milwaukee Road and was fascinated by steam locomotives from early childhood. In his teens, he served every day after school as a fireman on the Milwaukee-Chicago mail train, making the run in two and a half hours. As a young man, he did repairs as a Traction Engineer for the Milwaukee Northern interurban line. During the Depression, he worked as a time and motion expert for a national chain of laudromats, and after WWII, he returned again to supervise repairs on the Milwaukee Road. From 1953 on, he worked as a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. There, as a hobby, he built an electric freight locomotive from used automobile parts, which carried rocks and trees around his property for landscaping projects.
|