Author LM Kuntz publishes new book, “My 42-Year-Old Summer Job: A Railroad Memoir”

YUCAIPA, California., May 12, 2021 / PRNewswire / – “What Happened to the Cabooses? Is the Future of Railroading Toward Head-on Catastrophe?” A career that began with a detour to a seasonal gang of steel illustrates this question and many other technical and cultural changes. The plan has derailed and a life on the rails becomes a viable pursuit for writer LM Kuntz who announces the current release of his book, My 42 Year Summer Job: A Railroad Memoir via Amazon Books.

My 42-year-old summer job narrates frontline involvement, noting humor, drama, camaraderie, and great moments – without a dearth of opponents. He finds faith at a low time, and life is never the same. His rail background defines how technology and politics have evolved, from diesel engines in boxcars to modern smart locomotives, and from four-person shifts to two-man shifts. Kuntz also offers practical descriptions and industry information, from pointing a tie to stopping a 18K one-ton train. Despite dire weather conditions, derailments and fatalities, his journey continues from the Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, pursuing a suitable position. After a visit to Amtrak and a return to the high prairies, the quest to the west revisits Southern california.

One hour from the ocean; in the shadow of the San Bernardino mountain, close to the family, with golf all year round, seems like a perfect place and fate seems complete – save for one more obstacle… will he survive to the survey?

Amazon Reviews: “I’ve literally gasped out loud a few times reading this, not to mention the laughs. I’ve never experienced all the work that goes behind the scenes of making a train. loved reading this brief! “

His storytelling background includes local television commercial production and theater. Some of his North Dakota familiars come from its German Black Sea heritage in the flavor of Garrison keillor Scandinavian idioms. His platform for writing this book results from 3 years of track construction, 25 years of operating trains as a locomotive engineer, and 14 years of supervising operating employees where he stood. with one foot on the front line ballast with the boats and the other foot in the fluorescent. enlightened world of management.

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LM Kuntz retired from the railroad management and lives in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern california.

Contact: Website www.lkuntzauthor.com E-mail [email protected]

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