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Real Book About Trains, The By Davis Cole Childrens Fascinating tales Informatio
The Real Book About Trains By Davis Cole Childrens Fascinating tales and information about trains and railroading Dust Jacket 1951 183 Pages
Here's a book that takes you "back- stage" 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 shops; the traffic control with its switches, signals and dispatchers that make railroads safe to ride on; all the strange cars-flat cars, stock cars, scale testers, porcupines-as well as the luxurious Pullmans of today.
Do you know what a Bandy dancer is? Or a kingsnipe, 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 queer 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.
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