{"product_id":"rockys-rail","title":"Rocky's Rail: A Spokane Division Trainman, 1960-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsummate trainman John Langlot's career coincided with a tumultuous era in railroad history. He started with Great Northern at Hillyard (Spokane, Washington) as a brakeman, spending his early years on the Wenatchee-Oroville route. He was promoted to conductor in 1968. With the 1970 completion of the Burlington Northern merger, his work territory expanded. He retired in 2004 and now serves as a director and vice president of the Great Northern Railway Historical Society. \u003ci\u003eRocky's Rail\u003c\/i\u003e recounts his railroading experiences from 1960 through 2004, a period of sweeping technological change. His stories provide a rare first-person view of the craft of trainman. He also summarizes corporate-level decisions and their local impacts. In addition, the book offers a geographically arranged operational overview of the Great Northern Railway's Spokane Division in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46507184292050,"sku":"9781735174105","price":75.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_dc5d6791-82d6-43e8-8498-311c91d81294.jpg?v=1762877318","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/rockys-rail","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}