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Sinopsis

Witty, bygone rail travel stories and practical amusement for the modern reader.

This collection pairs humor with travel lore from Nye and Riley’s Railway Guide. It blends light essays, playful sketches, and letters that poke fun at rail travel while celebrating the era’s roads and routes. Ideal for readers who enjoy a peek into historical travel life, with a mix of satire, poetry, and anecdote.

  • Humorous takes on rail travel, schedules, and the quirks of the era.
  • Short literary pieces and poems that reveal character and mood.
  • Letters and anecdotes that illuminate public life, travel, and travel culture.
  • A window into the tone and style of late 19th-century American humor.
Ideal for readers of humorous essays and vintage travel writing, especially those curious about how people in earlier days looked at trains and journeys.

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Excerpt from Nye and Riley's Railway Guide

The authors of this book have made railroad travel a close study. They have discovered that there has been no provision made for the man who erroneously gets into a car which is side-tracked and swept out and scrubbed by people who take in cars to scrub and laundry. He is one of the men we are striving at this moment to reach with our little volume. We have each of us been that man. We are yet.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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