| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

This Train Is Bound for Glory: The Story of America's Chapel Cars. By Wilma Rugh Taylor and Norman Thomas Taylor. (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1999. xiii + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, index.)

^"Labor of Love" is a cliché often used to denigrate a book under review. In the Taylors' case, however, it is a compliment. They have done a prodigious amount of research in primary sources to tell the story of three religious denominations' attempts to bring God's word to some of the roughest, most remote, and unchurched towns in the United States. Beginning in the 1890s and lasting until well after World War II, Episcopal, Baptist, and Catholic chapel cars were a familiar sight on railways. 1

The Taylors compiled a vast amount of data on the cars, their peregrinations, ministers, successes and failures, and problems. The book is a gold mine for the religious historian; it details disputes within the denominations (who were struggling to keep the cars on the road), conflicts between the visiting ministers and local pastors and, in the case of the three Catholic cars, the anti-Catholicism that often erupted along the rails. . . .

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