Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. We often talk about how the railroad has shaped our communities, but we don't often get to dive into real world examples of this phenomenon. In this episode Amanda sits down with Derek Whaley to discuss how the railroad helped shape Santa Cruz California. Derek Whaley's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Cruz-Trains-Railroads-Mountains/dp/1508570736/ref=asc_df_1508570736/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312126490544&hvpos=&am...
Nov 27, 2022•57 min
In this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk we sit down with Dr. Kevin Waite to learn about his new book West of Slavery The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. We discuss the South's vision for expansion westward, their desire for a transcontinental railroad, and what the South's connection to the West says about our past. Learn more about Dr. Waite's book: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663197/west-of-slavery/
Nov 12, 2022•36 min
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this Halloween Special we sit down with Tony Reevy to learn about the history of ghost stories and the railroad. To learn more read Tony Reevy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Train-American-Railroad-Legends/dp/1883089417
Oct 29, 2022•37 min
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this bonus episode we commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month by learning more about the railroads' role in the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. For this topic we interviewed Desun Oka about his new digital exhibit for the museum available here: https://express.adobe.com/page/EZberU5iy1oNE/
Oct 15, 2022•24 min
Join us for this week's episode to Roundhouse Crosstalk! In this week's episode we sit down with Dr. Ethan Blue, a professor at the University of Western Australia, to learn about the connection between deportation and the railroad in the 19th century. For more information about this topic, you can read Dr. Blue's new book The Deportation Express : https://www.amazon.com/Deportation-Express-History-American-Crossroads/dp/0520304446...
Oct 08, 2022•55 min
Join us for this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk, a podcast hosted by the California State Railroad Museum. Today we’ll be hearing from Professor Scott Huffard about the spread of Yellow Fever, traditionally common in port towns, to inland towns after the construction of the railroad. How did people react to these outbreaks and did they understand its causes? What does can disease teach us about a society’s politics, infrastructure, and scientific knowledge? Stay tuned to find out! You ca...
Sep 24, 2022•47 min
What do the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Women’s Suffrage movement, and the golden age of Hollywood have in common? The Central Pacific Commissioner’s Car was there for them all! Tune in to this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk, a podcast hosted by the California State Railroad Museum. The Commissioner’s Car, now over 150 years old, is one of the newest additions to the museum’s collection of locomotives and train cars. Join us as we talk to Wendell Huffman, the previou...
Sep 15, 2022•48 min
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk! This week we sit down with Dominique Bregent-Heald an associate professor at Memorial University to discuss how railroad films helped create the modern idea of tourism and helped with the conservationist movement in both the United States and Canada.
Sep 09, 2022•26 min
In this very special bonus episode we swap places with @ The Roundhouse Podcast hosted by Nick Ozorak to learn about Railroads Online, a new immersive video game about 19th century railroading. Listen to more of @ The Roundhouse Podcast here: https://theroundhousepodcast.com/2022/03/15/kelly-lynch-fort-wayne-fmw-solutions/
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk! This week we sit down with Nick Ozorak from The Roundhouse Podcast to discuss his love of railroading, what he's learned as a railroad podcaster, and learn about railroad simulators. The Roundhouse Podcast: https://theroundhousepodcast.com/2022/03/15/kelly-lynch-fort-wayne-fmw-solutions/
Aug 26, 2022•41 min
Join us for this week’s very special bonus episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk, where Jake Jennerjohn, Amanda DeFazio, and Alex Clark discuss the new action film Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt. Is this movie an accurate and enjoyable representation of Japanese bullet trains? How many beloved train tropes does it include? Is it as thrilling as they say? Stay tuned to find out!
Aug 19, 2022•24 min
In this episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk we interview Lev Grossman and Sam Sedgman, two bestselling children's book authors, about how they use the railroad in their stories and what the railroad means to them. For more Roundhouse Crosstalk follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more please visit our website: https://anchor.fm/california-state-railroad For more information about the books discussed in this podcast please visit: https://levgrossman.com &a...
Aug 12, 2022•43 min
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk, where we interview Leann S. Taagepera a student in the California State University Sonoma Cultural Resources Management Program. The California State Railroad Museum has partnered with California State Universities to provide students with a platform to create and showcase digital exhibits for our museum. This episode looks at the Solano Train Ferry and its unique place in local and regional history. It offers us a chance to look at how co...
Jul 16, 2022•21 min
Join us for this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk! Have you ever wondered how timezones got their shape? Or if time was always so important to people? Were cavemen running around worried about being late? Well, in this week's episode we speak with Dr. Scott Johnston about his new book The Clocks Are Telling Lies. We discuss the invention of standard time and its connection to railroad history as well as look at different proposed models of universal time keeping. The Clocks Are Telling Lie...
Jul 01, 2022•36 min
Tune in to this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk, where we talk about the history of Kansas City’s music scene in relation to its development as a railroad town with Dr. Gabriella Roderer. What happens to the music scene when the railroad comes to town? And what can the changes in Kansas City tell us about the rest of America? You can find Dr. Roderer's website here: https://www.gabriellaroderer.com/
Jun 18, 2022•45 min
Welcome to Roundhouse Crosstalk! June is Pride Month, so for this week’s episode we talk with Tony Reevy, author of The Railroad Photography of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg , about Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, owners of the Gold Coast private rail car we have right here at the museum. Beebe and Clegg were not only influential train photographers, but also icons of high society and some of the earliest and most famous gay men to live openly in American history. Stay tuned to find out more ab...
Jun 04, 2022•46 min
Join us for this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this episode, we talk once again with Dr. Jeff Ferrell, a professor emeritus of Sociology at Texas Christian University, about how the desires for autonomy, adventure, and authenticity combine in train hopping.
May 21, 2022•55 min
In this week's episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk we sit down with Dr. Julia Lee to discuss her new book titled The Racial Railroad , which focuses on the connection between stories about race and stories about the Railroad. In the episode we discuss this interconnection, the many ways railroads are used symbolically in popular media, and the legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad. Dr. Lee's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Railroad-Julia-H-Lee/dp/1479812773...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 7 min
We would like to invite you to E.B. Crocker's Birthday Party! In this very special episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk we look at the contribution of EB Crocker to Sacramento and California. We look at both his impressive contributions to the Transcontinental Railroad and his continued legacy in Sacramento through the Crocker Art Museum.
Apr 26, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Happy Earth Day, everybody! Tune in to this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk where we discuss environmental tourism with Rachel Wolff, a graduate student of Public History at California State University, Sacramento. Rachel has contributed her newly published digital exhibit, Rails to Redwoods, to the California State Railroad Museum. Enjoyed this episode and want to learn more? You can access Rachel’s exhibit here: https://www.californiarailroad.museum/education/laboratory-of-learning-1/st...
Apr 22, 2022•34 min
In this episode we speak with Dr. Rebecca Harrison a lecturer a the Open University in the UK. She primarily focuses on the impact of media and technology on class, gender, and race and is the author of From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways, and Modernity. This episode covers the development of Cinema Trains in the UK, what these trains represented to travelers, and their ultimate legacy. Dr. Harrison's book: https://www.amazon.com/Steam-Screen-Railways-Modernity-Society/dp/1784539155 Adven...
Apr 10, 2022•46 min
In this episode we speak with Dr. Rebecca Harrison a lecturer a the Open University in the UK. She primarily focuses on the impact of media and technology on class, gender, and race and is the author of From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways, and Modernity . Fittingly, this episode looks at the connection between cinema and the railroad during the very late 19th century and the early to mid twentieth century. We’ll discuss how mass media and mass transit helped make modernity, and how people...
Mar 26, 2022•40 min
Have you ever noticed the bright, colorful graffiti on freight cars? Who put it there and why? Join us on this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Jeff Ferrell, a professor emeritus of Sociology at Texas Christian University. Listen in as we discuss the world of freight train graffiti and the fascinating overlaps between railroaders and graffiti writers.
Mar 11, 2022•46 min
This episode is the second part of a two part interview with Miriam Thaggert, a professor at the University at Buffalo about her new book Riding Jane Crow: African American Women in the American Railroad. In part one we discussed how railroad travel was both radicalized and gendered and how African American men and women used train travel as a marker of social progress, or lack thereof. In this episode we look at a few individuals who helped test these racial and gender boundries. You can preord...
Feb 26, 2022•27 min
Join us on this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this week's episode we speak with Miriam Thaggert, a professor at the University at Buffalo about her new book Riding Jane Crow: African American Women in the American Railroad . We discuss how railroad travel was both radicalized and gendered and how African American men and women used train travel as a marker of social progress, or lack thereof. This is the first of a two part interview. You can preorder Riding Jane Crow at: https://ww...
Feb 12, 2022•24 min
Join us on this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this episode, we will continue last episode’s discussion with Dr. John Lennon, an associate professor at the University of South Florida and author of Boxcar Politics: The Hobo in Literature and Culture 1869-1956 . This week we will be exploring the hobo mythos and its relationship to race, labor, and politics. Please note that this episode will contain mentions of sexual assault and discrimination against minority groups. Viewer discret...
Jan 29, 2022•38 min
Join us on this week’s episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk. In this episode, we will explore the popular American figure of the hobo with Dr. John Lennon, an associate professor at the University of South Florida and author of Boxcar Politics: The Hobo in Literature and Culture 1869-1956. This is the first episode of two. Keep an eye out for our next episode where we will learn more about hobo culture and its intersections with race and American identity. Follow Dr. John Lennon on twitter at @hoboac...
Jan 15, 2022•34 min
2021 is the 40th anniversary of the California State Railroad Museum. In this episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk Debbie Hollingsworth, a guide here at the California State Railroad Museum, leads you through the earliest history of the museum with added commentary from Denny Anspach, one of the people most responsible for its location in Sacramento.
Dec 04, 2021•36 min
In this episode fo Roundhouse Crosstalk we interview Dr. Raymond Chong about his research into his family history. We discuss what his research experience was like, the importance of oral histories, and the story of his ancestor who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. The Zhang Clan Odyssey: https://www.mychinaroots.com/samples/zhang-odyssey/ Story of my Ancestors Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad : https://asamnews.com/2018/05/03/apa-heritage-month-story-of-my-ancestors-who-built-...
Nov 20, 2021•35 min
In this episode of Roundhouse Crosstalk we sit down with Paul Self, a long time docent at the California State Railroad Museum, to discuss the Military Railway Service. Join us to hear more about these important service members and how they impacted the United State Military from the Civil War to present day.
Nov 06, 2021•37 min
