OFF THE TRACKS ~

 

R E A D   M E

ECW Press, 2024

ANNOUNCING GO WEST ~

Bob & Susan Arnold travel by trains, lots of trains, across America, across Canada.

This book — filled with poems and travel photography — shares  one cross-country trip the couple took in the mid-1980s to California from Vermont.


Go West was first published by Coyote Books
 twenty-five years ago. 
This revised and expanded edition
 now shows the photographs from that adventure across
and broadly stateside in California.

Go West by Bob Arnold

Longhouse 2014

  144 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 6.25 inches
70 photographs

$15

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TRAINS ~

 

some songs opened, some didn't, ah well, enjoy the ride as far as it goes

 

























































































































































































































1. Back of train (photo : Luis Beltran)
2. Nebraska Morning Train ( photo : Pat Barry)
3. Train Shed (Pat Barry)
4. Daylight and the Joshua Tree (Pat Barry)
5. Climax in Pushing Service (Pat Barry)
6. On the V&T (Pat Barry)
7. Down the Rathole (Pat Barry)
8. Along the Soo Line (Pat Barry)
9. Canadian Pacific Railway, 1960 (David Plowden)
locomotive no. 2412
10. A westbound, steam-powered freight train on the Santa Fe Railway framed by the front window of an early diesel locomotive at Matfield Green, Kansas, circa 1940.
Photograph by John Walker Barriger III. Courtesy of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
11. Santa Fe #19L, leading the Super Chief, smashing through a concrete barrier at Los Angeles Union Station in January, 1948. (photo : unknown)
12. Buster Keaton from The General
13. "Toward Los Angeles, California," 1937 (photo : Dorothea Lange)
14. Neal Cassady (right) in uniform employed with Southern Pacific Railroad
15. (photo : Colin E. Braley)
16. Steam Train (Pat Barry)
17. "Rock Island" (Photo : unknown)
18. Slumper Winter Time (Pat Barry)
19. New York Central bullet train (photo : unknown)






~ Bob Arnold,  American Train Letters
(Coyote Books, 1995)






  (Longhouse, 1984)







(Coyote Books, 1987)

MORE TRAIN ~
( prone )

I wouldn't

EARTH ~
( Full Moon )

CROSS COUNTRY



In all our windows

It’s the moon

On the train





[ BA ]







see: Go West
(Coyote Books ) or
American Train Letters
by Bob Arnold
(Coyote Books / University of New York at Buffalo)