Oral history interview with Mark Womack [audio recording and transcript]

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Title: Oral history interview with Mark Womack [audio recording and transcript]
Description: Mark Sanders Womack, Jr. (31 Dec 1923-25 Dec 2020), railroad buff and retired employee of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, draws on over forty years of personal experience and cites supplemental historical facts to give a picture of railroading life over the years. Topics touched on include: Chattanooga as a rail center; train orders, messages, rules, and other operational procedures; decline of passenger service; company mergers; transmission instruments; dining and cafe cars; employee positions, duties, food and lodging, etc. Also discusses the historic engine, "The General," and Chattanooga's efforts to keep it.
Interviewee: Womack, Mark, 1923-2020
Interviewer: Bradley, Norman, 1913-2004
Extent: 2 audiocassettes (2 hours 35 minutes); 1 transcript (61 pages)
Collection: Chattanooga Public Library Oral History Collection
Subject: Railroads -- Tennessee; General, The (Steam locomotive); Railroads-- Tennessee -- Passenger service; Womack, Mark, 1923-2020
Rights: No Copyright
Bibliographic Citation: Oral History Collection. Chattanooga Public Library.
Relation: Index to the Oral History Collection
Identifier: OHP 32
Type: Sound; Text
Language: English

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