Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad
p> About the Book Early in Joe Harris's railroad career, one of his supervisors told him, You have to blow your own horn; nobody's going to blow it for you. Harris tried to live by these words. And in this memoir, he also describes blowing a horn of another sort-that of a railroad engineer. Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad recaps Harris's thirty-six-year stint working on the railroad-from his debut as an electrician'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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4269-1477-5
- EAN: 9781426914775
- Produktnummer: 5391668
- Verlag: Trafford Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.4 cm 448 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 448
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