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HELL OF A WAY TO RUN A RAILROAD IBD

TRAFFORD PUBLISHING
10 / 2009
9781426914775
Inglés

Sinopsis

p> About the Book Early in Joe Harris&rsquo,s railroad career, one of his supervisors told him, &ldquo,You have to blow your own horn, nobody&rsquo,s going to blow it for you.&rdquo, Harris tried to live by these words. And in this memoir, he also describes blowing a horn of another sort&mdash,that of a railroad engineer. Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad recaps Harris&rsquo,s thirty-six-year stint working on the railroad&mdash,from his debut as an electrician&rsquo,s helper in 1969 with the Burlington Northern Railroad to becoming an engineer in 1974. In his thirty years working as a locomotive engineer, Harris hit twenty vehicles and killed three people with the train. With a focus toward safety, Harris discusses becoming a volunteer presenter with Operation Lifesaver, a program designed to help save people&rsquo,s lives around railroad tracks. Including a comprehensive glossary of railroad terminology, Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad presents a fascinating look into the many and varied facets of working on the railroad with both passenger trains and freight trains&mdash,from the interesting locals to the quirky co-workers.