Trains and Trolleys: Railroads and Streetcars in St. Louis - Hardcover

by Molly Butterworth (Author)

Author Biography

Though she had already worked on vintage warbirds as a volunteer at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Molly Butterworth never imagined while studying public history in graduate school that her museum career would include learning to how to operate diesel locomotives from a retired Missouri Pacific electrician nicknamed "Papercup" for his use of Dixie cups to cover open contacts, restoring passenger rail cars named for and ridden by Presidents, and becoming president of the Association of Railway Museums.