Book Signing: Tuscon Was a Railroad Town by William Kalt

Join award-winning author William D. Kalt III for a thrilling ride through the West during the Age of Steam Locomotives. More than 400 never-before-published photographs

fill this remarkable volume. First-hand accounts of men and women who worked for Southern Pacific Railroad enliven incidents and anecdotes, tragedy and inspiration. Southern Pacific constructed the nation's second transcontinental line across her southwestern deserts in the early 1880s. "Rails," railroad workers, built towns like Tucson across the West and developed a distinct rail culture. Travel back to this uncommon epoch in our country's history, now 50 years behind us. As much a story America's western frontier as it is the railroad.