…illustrates a beautiful courtship, romance and marriage with wife Mabel via mail by rail from Wausau to Milwaukee in 1930s Wisconsin before and during the Great Depression.
Synopsis
Lover of music and master of the piano, Walter, or more affectionately known as Wallie, meets Miss Mabel Schrader of Wausau while auditing the books of the company she’d then worked for, Marathon Shoe Manufacturing Co., and it’s “love at first sight.” However, she is engaged to another man away at college in Ashland, Wisconsin. Before email, text messages, the internet and smart phones including the eventual widespread adoption of the personal automobile, there was penmanship, newspapers, trains and the postal service — mail by rail. A historical nonfiction romance so eloquently written with German influence interspersed throughout in raw form, With a Carload of Love… Letters from Wallie serves as a primary account of rail service in the U.S. during the height of its heyday and will take you on a journey through a unique time in history many of us have never known and a love only few have ever experienced.
Please read after yours truly is gone on the “choo-choo train.”
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Thursday, January 24, 1929 - …I can see you looking right at me with your sunshine smile & smiling eyes… don’t think I’m trying to sap soap you… your sweet smile & pretty face is deeply imprinted in my mind & memory – never to forget.
Friday, February 1, 1929 - From the moment I saw you that feeling came over me. And I just know that it will continue. I must confess one thing to you, my dear heart, and maybe you won’t believe me when I tell you. The fact is this. I think you might feel the same way about it.
Wednesday, February 6, 1929 - I am so glad to receive the honor of being in the position that you have put me in – you have given me the chance of winning you. Oh, may I win… It would make me the happiest boy in the world if I, in the end, can have you – I mean that … Continue reading Wednesday, February 6, 1929
With a Carload of Love... 