“Here’s a book that takes you “backstage” on the railroad. There’s plenty about the early days — Casey Jones, Buffalo Bill, the last spike, all the colorful goings-on of the wild and wooly era — but there’s even more about the exciting business of railroading today.
Here are the people who work on the rails — conductors, engineers, brakemen, firemen, traffic managers, section crews, news butchers, mail clerks, repair crews, porters, scores of others.
Here are the locomotives — everything from a juice jack to a Mother Hubbard; the whistles and other noises; the roundhouses and ships; the traffic control with its switches, signals and dispatchers that make railroads safe to ride on; all the strange card — flat cars, stock cars, scale testers, porcupines — as well as the luxurious Pullmans of today.
Do you know what a gandy dancer is? Or a kingspine, a tallowpot, a slinger, a black snake, a red ball, a hogger, and crummy, or a cockloft?
THE REAL BOOK ABOUT TRAINS will explain all these strange terms and many more. Full of good stories, it is a complete introduction to trains and all the people and things that help them run.”
Hardcover, no dust jacket. Excellent condition
“Here’s a book that takes you “backstage” on the railroad. There’s plenty about the early days — Casey Jones, Buffalo Bill, the last spike, all the colorful goings-on of the wild and wooly era — but there’s even more about the exciting business of railroading today.
Here are the people who work on the rails — conductors, engineers, brakemen, firemen, traffic managers, section crews, news butchers, mail clerks, repair crews, porters, scores of others.
Here are the locomotives — everything from a juice jack to a Mother Hubbard; the whistles and other noises; the roundhouses and ships; the traffic control with its switches, signals and dispatchers that make railroads safe to ride on; all the strange card — flat cars, stock cars, scale testers, porcupines — as well as the luxurious Pullmans of today.
Do you know what a gandy dancer is? Or a kingspine, a tallowpot, a slinger, a black snake, a red ball, a hogger, and crummy, or a cockloft?
THE REAL BOOK ABOUT TRAINS will explain all these strange terms and many more. Full of good stories, it is a complete introduction to trains and all the people and things that help them run.”
Hardcover, no dust jacket. Excellent condition
