Word: frimbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimable Ernest M. Frimbo is the Baron Munchausen of railroads, with a puff of Lucius Beebe and a chuff of Cervantes thrown in. Frimbo-the "world's greatest railroad buff'-is the brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that...
Reporting on his travels, Voyageur Frimbo rails-so to speak-against what he calls "infernal combustion...
...Whitaker-Frimbo and Co-Author Anthony Hiss have compiled a tingling compendium of great train rides, past and present. Some that Frimbo describes, like a Washington-Mexico City-San Diego odyssey aboard the privately owned Pennsylvania, are for the chosen few. Other trains that he recalls, now "annulled forever, the tracks torn up." include the old Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn, India's His Highness the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, and that sans pareil the London-Edinburgh Flying Scotsman, now privately owned by a wealthy English railroad...
...with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star menus. There are other royal rides for those who like to look an English cowslip in the eye or find out for them selves that Mussolini did indeed make Italy's trains run on time. "For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train...
...Frimbo, at his polemic best, reasons that for a fraction of the money...