Author: William Hasell Wilson
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Reminiscences of a Railroad Engineer
Author: William Hasell Wilson
Publisher:
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Life and Times of a Locomotive Engineer
Author: Charles F. Steffes
Publisher: Old World Pub
ISBN: 9781880365137
Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Publisher: Old World Pub
ISBN: 9781880365137
Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Reminiscences in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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On the Rails
Author: Linda Niemann
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Category : Women railroad employees
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey--the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her--providing an elegy to a dying trade.
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Category : Women railroad employees
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey--the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her--providing an elegy to a dying trade.
Train
Author: Tom Zoellner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698151399
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698151399
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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My Rail Life
Author: Michael J Shaw
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
MY RAIL LIFE is a book with over 101 stories, and announcements I've heard, lived, and seen in my 36 year career as a Railroad Conductor. I hope as you read each part of my storytelling you smile, cry, laugh and love a little because that's what I did while I lived "My Rail Life."
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
MY RAIL LIFE is a book with over 101 stories, and announcements I've heard, lived, and seen in my 36 year career as a Railroad Conductor. I hope as you read each part of my storytelling you smile, cry, laugh and love a little because that's what I did while I lived "My Rail Life."
An American Railroad Dream
Author: Susie Gaglia
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ISBN: 9780996773065
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Susie Gaglia reminisces about fulfilling her childhood dream with her career as railroad engineer for passenger and freight trains along the Northeast Corridor during the mid twentieth century. Beginning with her upbringing in a suburb of Buffalo through the process of qualifying to operate locomotives to vignettes from her fifteen-year career, Susie remembers kind mentors, close encounters on the tracks, near misses, massive accidents, and moments of sexual harassment as she fulfilled an American railroad dream.
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ISBN: 9780996773065
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Susie Gaglia reminisces about fulfilling her childhood dream with her career as railroad engineer for passenger and freight trains along the Northeast Corridor during the mid twentieth century. Beginning with her upbringing in a suburb of Buffalo through the process of qualifying to operate locomotives to vignettes from her fifteen-year career, Susie remembers kind mentors, close encounters on the tracks, near misses, massive accidents, and moments of sexual harassment as she fulfilled an American railroad dream.
Early Engineering Reminiscences, 1815-40
Author: George Escol Sellers
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Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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