Author: Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN: 037587304X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
When Percy breaks down, Thomas the Tank Engine comes to rescue him, in a book with wheels that work. On board pages.
Rolling on the Rails
Author: Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN: 037587304X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
When Percy breaks down, Thomas the Tank Engine comes to rescue him, in a book with wheels that work. On board pages.
Rolling Nowhere
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781301453290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.
Rolling Home
Author: Tom AllenPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tom Allen travels with his family and alone, from Halifax to the interior of British Columbia, riding everything from a two-car dayliner held together with duct tape to a luxury rail cruiser through the Rockies that is packed with wealthy tourists. Along the way, he meets honeymooners and abandoned spouses, ordinary folk and deranged passengers, and veteran railwaymen who sustain pride in their work despite the massive cuts to their industry. Allen weaves his own memories of railroad travel with a family narrative past and present, all the while conjuring the drama, the disappointments, and the magic of Canada's railway history. 2001.
The Long Trains Roll
Author: Stephen Warren MeaderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Randy stumbles upon some clues to a sabotage of a four-track rail artery that passes west through the Appalachian Mountains.
Journal
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
Book Description
Build the Train
Author: Philip SteelePublisher: Silver Dolphin Books
ISBN: 1684123372
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Ride the rails with Build the Train, and construct a 2-foot-long rolling train model. Get ready to ride to the rails with the newest title in the best-selling Build the… series: Build the Train! This interactive guide features trains from around the globe and comes with a tuck box containing pre-cut pieces to build a beautifully artworked 19th-century steam train with moving wheels. Learn all about trains, their history and engineering—from steam to high-speed—including how each different type of engine works and the variety of trains that exist around the world. Discover how steam engines work, the difference between electric and diesel, and how different countries are creating trains with higher speeds and increased capacities. This wonderful book captures the romance of trains and combines it with interesting information on the nuts and bolts behind train travel.
Riding the Rails
Author: Errol Lincoln UysPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135942293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Through letters and photographs, profiles teenagers who hopped the freight trains during the Great Depression in order to find adventure, seek employment, or escape poverty.
Proceedings
Author: The Federal Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
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