Bøger af Aaron Dactyl

Railroad Semantics is no less a high spirited an adventure to read than the train hopping it describes. You are swept along as you precariously climb aboard and jumble down the tracks with Aaron Dactyl and his fellow travelers. As the story unfolds and you become familiar with the terrain in the fascinating pictures contained herein, you can't help but imagine you're one of the animated characters riding along as you attempt to avoid detection. Before long it's one of your tags Aaron spots and photographs under a bridge or on the walls of the box cars he uses to traverse from the snowy white capped peaks to the tree lined valley floor on his way north and south between cities. The morning dew dripping from the rail yard's grassy meadows signifies it's time to navigate the maze of tracks to catch the next train. Sometimes you must take flying leaps of faith from the cars onto the rocky ground below in order to outrun the authorities. But by the end you're waving goodbye to your new friend to return to your mundane life, anticipating his return.

Man, could Railroad Semantics get any better? Each issue Aaron Dactyl takes his zine up a notch. This issue of Aaron's train-bound adventure zine is chock full of history, maps, beautiful photos, and articles from various newspapers and magazines, and comes complete with an encyclopedic eye for detail and minutia. Weighing in at a whopping 104 pages, issue 6 finds us traversing the Pacific NW and West Coast, hitting such railroad stops as Arcata, Coos Bay, Klamath Falls, Redding, Eugene, Bend, Shasta Lake, Oregon Trunk Junction, Dunsmuir, Sacramento, McCloud, and more.

Devoted to train-hopping, graffiti, and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's Railroad Semantics series describes the sights, sounds, successes, and defeats of exploring the western U.S. by freight train. The first four Railroad Semantics books are collected here for the first time. In their pages, you'll see epic, hidden works of art, read up on rail lore and riding tips, meet rail workers and fellow adventurers, and experience the perils and glories of life in rail yards, train cars, small towns, and encampments. The adventures in these books take you through California, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Oregon. Cities visited: Sacramento, CaliforniaArcata, CaliforniaRedding, CaliforniaUkiah, CaliforniaWillits, CaliforniaDunsmuir, CaliforniaRoseville, California>Portland, OregonEugene, OregonBend, Oregon>Missoula, Montana>Cheyenne, Wyoming>Pocatello, Idaho>Salt Lake City, UtahElko, NevadaDenver, Colorado

Railroad Semantics combines personal accounts of train hopping with a slew of diverse railroad-themed articles, and pictures of rail-yard graffiti. Aaron hops to Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, California, and Wyoming, and collects newspaper clippings along the way. Subjects include railway murders, track replacement efforts, the Dunsmuir Railroad Museum, the sale of Burlington Northern, and multiple train derailments.