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Train Wreck
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Author : George Bibel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-10-07
Train Wreck written by George Bibel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-07 with Science categories.
Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails
The Angola Horror
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Author : Charity Vogel
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
The Angola Horror written by Charity Vogel and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with History categories.
On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad’s eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying—and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the "Angola Horror," one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history. In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the wreck and the characters involved in the tragic accident. Her tale weaves together the stories of the people—some unknown; others soon to be famous—caught up in the disaster, the facts of the New York Express’s fateful run, the fiery scenes in the creek ravine, and the subsequent legal, legislative, and journalistic search for answers to the question: what had happened at Angola, and why? The Angola Horror is a classic story of disaster and its aftermath, in which events coincide to produce horrific consequences and people are forced to respond to experiences that test the limits of their endurance. Vogel sets the Angola Horror against a broader context of the developing technology of railroads, the culture of the nation’s print media, the public policy legislation of the post–Civil War era, and, finally, the culture of death and mourning in the Victorian period. The Angola Horror sheds light on the psyche of the American nation. The fatal wreck of an express train nine years later, during a similar bridge crossing in Ashtabula, Ohio, serves as a chilling coda to the story.
Trainwreck
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Author : Sady Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Trainwreck written by Sady Doyle and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Social Science categories.
“Smart ... compelling ... persuasive .” —New York Times Book Review She’s everywhere once you start looking: the trainwreck. She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against the boundaries of what it means to “behave.” Where did these women come from? What are their crimes? And what does it mean for the rest of us? For an age when any form of self-expression can be the one that ends you, Doyle’s book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate—an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.
Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck
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Author : Eric G. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck written by Eric G. Wilson and has been published by Sarah Crichton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Social Science categories.
Why can't we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the caustic, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. "To repress death is to lose the feeling of life," he writes. "A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies." His examples are legion, and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defense of what it means to be human—for better and for worse.
Man Failure
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Author : Gordon Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06
Man Failure written by Gordon Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with Railroad accidents categories.
A non-fiction account of the February 6, 1951 wreck of the Pennsylvania Railroad trains "The Broker" at Woodbridge, New Jersey.
H I Train Wreck
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Author : Marie Pawelec
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-01
H I Train Wreck written by Marie Pawelec and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Drama categories.
Train Wreck
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Author : Kathleen Duey
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-08
Train Wreck written by Kathleen Duey and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In 1892 Max and Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.
Train Wreck Girl
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Author : Sean Carswell
language : en
Publisher: Manic D Press
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Train Wreck Girl written by Sean Carswell and has been published by Manic D Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Fiction categories.
“Sean Carswell is a wonderful storyteller. . . . Reading his stuff makes you laugh and makes you think.”—Howard Zinn “[Carswell’s writing is] the antidote to what is so boring or safe or wrong with modern book publishing.”—Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned Train Wreck Girl is the funny and tragic story of one man’s quest to figure out what to do with his life now that it’s too late for him to die young. After finding his girlfriend dead on the railroad tracks right after breaking up with her, Danny McGregor—Flagstaff bartender and surfer without an ocean—rides the next bus out of Arizona, fleeing to his Cocoa Beach, Florida, hometown, where a maelstrom of past ghosts await. Back in Florida, his treacherous friend, Bart, finds Danny a job picking up corpses. Sophie, a former crazy girlfriend who stabbed Danny, wants to rekindle their relationship. Taylor, a twelve-year-old neighborhood girl, only wants Danny to teach her to surf. And then there’s Helen, with a face that launched a dozen Greyhounds. Through the chaos, Danny discovers his strengths amid all his weaknesses and is able to move forward while making peace with his past. Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. A co-founder of Gorsky Press, he is currently a professor at the University of California.
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Author : Wesley S. Griswold
language : en
Publisher: Stephen Greene Press
Release Date : 1969
Train Wreck written by Wesley S. Griswold and has been published by Stephen Greene Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with History categories.
"The story of 19 historic rail disasters: 1833-1958"--Jacket.
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Author : Elise Faber
language : en
Publisher: Elise Faber
Release Date : 2018-12-30
Train Wreck written by Elise Faber and has been published by Elise Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-30 with Fiction categories.
Pepper O’Brien was Hollywood royalty. Also, her life sucked. Money couldn’t buy everything—including grace, true love, and the ability to not screw up. Every. Single. Time. Which was why Pepper had moved across the country to start over. Only, as was typical, her life had other plans. Namely in the form of Derek Cashette. Her former teenage crush and now ridiculously handsome man was her older brother’s friend. He was also determined to salvage the train wreck of her life. And maybe in doing that, he would save the train wreck that was her heart.