Rails Tales
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Rails Tales
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Author : E. Ray Lichty
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-06-13
Rails Tales written by E. Ray Lichty and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-13 with categories.
Short stories about the working days of managers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from 1950-1980. Some sad; some funny; all enlightening about working on the railroad in that time frame.
Rails Tales And Trails
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Author : Bill George
language : en
Publisher: Bill George
Release Date : 2013-09-21
Rails Tales And Trails written by Bill George and has been published by Bill George this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-21 with History categories.
A step-by-step guide to secret locations, fascinating people and historic towns of the old Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Reno
Old Rails Tales
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Author : Alan Allen
language : en
Publisher: Trafford
Release Date : 2010-03
Old Rails Tales written by Alan Allen and has been published by Trafford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with Railroads categories.
(2005) Reviewed by the New York Times as: "a word of praise for Old Rails' Tales, volume one of an up-to-the-minute American railroad oral history edited by Alan Allen...straight-forward, substantial and well-researched...the cream of the crop [of new railroad books]...successfully breaks away from the old self-conscious, hangdog, and almost occultist 'railroadiana' conventions of so many postwar books about train[s]...in which the tone was either wistful or aggrieved, and railroads were presented as part of a time...sealed off from modern life...In touch with railroading! Bold! And bouyant! Energetic! Compassionate! Extraordinary!" (hardcover review 12/22/91) This oral journalism/oral history book is written in a style blended of classical American anecdotist James Thurber and classical Russian author Anton Chekhov, providing matter-of-fact reporting of the most emotional moments of the on-the-job lives of six generations of American 'rails' (a self-titled term used by those who work running the railroads). True stories from the lives of American Rails Alan Allen releases family edition of cream of the crop' railroading book SAN FRANCISCO The only book of on-the-job, true stories told first-hand by six generations of steam engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, switchmen, dispatchers, yardmasters and superintendents on Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Santa Fe and Amtrak and the first women engineers in California, Old Rails' Tales: Anecdotes, Stories & Memoirs on the Road and in the Yard (published by Trafford) shares 285 true stories and anecdotes in this newly released abridged family edition for ages 9 to adult. Includes foreword by Studs Terkel and interview with Linda Neimann. When reviewed in limited hard cover edition in 1991, New York Times said, a word of praise for Old Rails' Tales, volume one of an up-to-the-minute American railroad history edited by Alan Allen straight forward substantial and well-researched cream of the crop in touch with railroading! Bold! Buoyant! Energetic! Compassionate! Extraordinary! Now available in paperback. Author Alan Allen provides matter-of-fact oral journalism reporting the most emotional moments in the working lives of American rails', a self-titled term used by railroad workers, including riding on top of runaway boxcars towards Coathanger Curve, running into gasoline trucks that explode at track crossings, chasing escaped rabbits through derailed boxcars full of blueberries then thru town, and how to run a steam locomotive. Conservative and hippie, good natured, funny, and rebellious rails are interviewed in this oral history of everyday on-the-job blue collar heroes of our Americana steam era.
Rails Tales
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Author : E. Ray Lichty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Rails Tales written by E. Ray Lichty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Railroads categories.
Tales Of The Rails
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Author : Nathaniel Adams
language : en
Publisher: Little Gestalten
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Tales Of The Rails written by Nathaniel Adams and has been published by Little Gestalten this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Jump on board a visual journey that will draw readers young and old into the magic of traveling by train, the sense of adventure and discovery as you look around at the world passing by. Learn about the trains like the bullet train Shinkansen and the most ambitious, daring and important train routes ever constructed. From Australia to Wales, each route is unique. Find out why as we travel the globe and explore the stories of the people who built, designed and ride the railways. Discover how these routes came to be and the impact they have had on history and people's lives today.
Quirky Tales Of The Rails
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Author : James Betts
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Quirky Tales Of The Rails written by James Betts and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Old Rails Tales
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Author : Alan Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Old Rails Tales written by Alan Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Oral history categories.
Tales Of The Rails
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Author : Veronica Somerville Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Tales Of The Rails written by Veronica Somerville Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Railroads categories.
Haunted Rails
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Author : Matthew L. Swayne
language : en
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date : 2019-09-08
Haunted Rails written by Matthew L. Swayne and has been published by Llewellyn Worldwide this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-08 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
50 chilling true stories of haunted trains and ghostly workers from the steam locomotive era to the modern day Discover dozens of hauntings on railroads in 19 US states as well as in Canada and the UK, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and many more. Haunted Rails tells the tale of a possessed caboose on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and a Civil War–era rebel ghost train; museum hauntings at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; apparitions at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Waterfront Station and Nashville's Union Station; and the haunted presidential trains of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Filled with ghost trains, spectral switchmen, and frightening facts, Haunted Rails is a spine-tingling ride to the other side that you don't want to miss. All aboard!
Travel Tales
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Author : Michael Brein
language : en
Publisher: Michael Brein
Release Date : 2024-04-16
Travel Tales written by Michael Brein and has been published by Michael Brein this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with Transportation categories.
Travel Tales: Trains - Terror on the Rails: Is the next book in line of relatively shorter-take samplers in my True Travel Tales book series. It's a collection of some scary close calls on passenger or freight trains while plying some of the World's most famous railways and barely managing in some instances to escape from being robbed or even harmed. Train Stories is a collection of some fearful close calls that can and do happen to world rail travelers on occasion. Mostly these will never happen to you but if they do, you may get to experience some real, raw fear including sometimes even fear for your own life on some very unsettling occasions that can potentially pop up now and again to any of us rail travelers and adventurers. This collection of True Travel Tales is the place to hear about them. I hope such things don't happen to you, but if they do, I hope you'll manage to escape and overcome. Hopefully, you'll be all the wiser for reading about such things throughout these pages. Again, Trains includes some examples of bad things that occasionally happen to travelers despite their best efforts to avoid such things. But bad things of course DO happen now and again, and the best thing to do is to of course avoid them in the first place! Hah! But if we cannot, we should certainly at least do our best to escape them. While there is no easy, simple laundry list of failsafe rail traveling strategies for always staying safe and surviving each potentially dangerous situation that may arise in your travels on the rails, there are, nevertheless, meaningful takeaway strategies to be learned from the numerous examples presented in this book that will enable one to develop and keep in mind ways to enhance personal safety and reduce the risks of potentially dangerous outcomes at times in your travel on the World's railroads. While the tales in Trains are of course not all strictly about life and death and/or robbery situations, many are doubtless about difficult, embarrassing, and otherwise potentially annoying nuisance situations that we all would do very well to do without in the first place. The scope and variety of close calls and ultimate escapes in Trains - Terror on the Rails may very well surprise you and cause you a good laugh now and again as well. Some are quite funny, like, for example, the story of soiled clothing so very badly in need of laundering that traveled over and over again throughout the rails of France. The extreme close-call adventures may never happen to you, but reading about them in this particular book in my True Travel Tales series, may give you pause: who knows? Maybe you'll never, be followed, stalked, chased, or intimidated at all in the first place or maybe in the next instance throughout your travels on the rails. Sure, you'll read stories in this book that will alert you to situations that may never even have occurred to you in the first place. But if you avoid even one potentially new (to you) travel danger by reading this book, then I will have accomplished a very useful purpose.