Book description
Sam Spearman—wealthy, elderly, irascible—is a man on a mission. The mighty Central Pacific Railroad proposes to abandon tracks that serve his Kansas grain elevators. Caught in the middle is Chet Whitfield, who runs CP’s Kansas Division. When Sam forces Central Pacific to sell him the Kansa City-to-Denver route, Chet chooses…
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1 author picked Seldom Willing as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A story about railroading that got right all the details of how a railroad operates.
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