This train is bound for glory : the story of America's chapel cars Wilma Rugh Taylor and Norman Thomas Taylor

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Wilma Rugh.

Contributor:

Taylor, Norman Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--United States--Passenger-cars.

Railroads.

Chapels--United States.

Chapels.

Physical Description:

xiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Valley Forge, PA : Judson Press, 1999.

Contents:

Western railroads: "hell on wheels" or heaven

The church-on-rails concept: nothing new under the sun

The first American chapel car: cathedral car of North Dakota

The Hoyt brothers, J.D. Rockefeller, and the chapel car syndicate

Baptist car 1: uncle Boston's dream, bright Evangel

Bishop Williams' episcopal cars of northern Michigan

Baptist car 2: all hail, Emmanuel

Baptist car 3: Glad tidings across the plains and prairies

Baptist car 4: Good will from the southwest to the northwest

Baptist car 5: Messenger of peace, the 1904 World's Fair, and the railroad Y

Baptist car 6: Herald of hope, roll on, roll on

St. Anthony: if the Baptists can do it, so can the Catholics

St. Peter: the first steel apostle and Peter Kuntz

Barney & Smith car company and the flood of 1913

St. Paul: the great steel ark of the apostle

Baptist car 7: amazing Grace, the last of the American fleet

The end of the chapel car era

Appendixes: Floor plans of the chapel cars

Logs of cars' journeys and missionaries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Taylor, Wilma Rugh. This train is bound for glory.

ISBN:

0817012842

9780817012847

OCLC:

40453075