Author: Charles Carson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511469968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
'One Man's Garden Railways' is a factual, sometimes humorous, account of a fifty year odyssey building and running ride-on garden railways. Over forty photographs and drawings illustrate the various topics covered. Links to YouTube videos further enhance the readers experience of this somewhat eccentric hobby. As well as an entertaining personal history, this book aims to show inexpensive ways the reader with some DIY skills can construct a ride-on railway in their own garden, however small. You too, could be sashaying through the garden shrubbery in the dusk of a summer's evening or transporting children on a 'Santa special' through a starry Christmas Eve landscape. This book can inspire and assist you to achieve your dream.
One Man's Garden Railways
Author: Charles Carson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511469968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
'One Man's Garden Railways' is a factual, sometimes humorous, account of a fifty year odyssey building and running ride-on garden railways. Over forty photographs and drawings illustrate the various topics covered. Links to YouTube videos further enhance the readers experience of this somewhat eccentric hobby. As well as an entertaining personal history, this book aims to show inexpensive ways the reader with some DIY skills can construct a ride-on railway in their own garden, however small. You too, could be sashaying through the garden shrubbery in the dusk of a summer's evening or transporting children on a 'Santa special' through a starry Christmas Eve landscape. This book can inspire and assist you to achieve your dream.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511469968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
'One Man's Garden Railways' is a factual, sometimes humorous, account of a fifty year odyssey building and running ride-on garden railways. Over forty photographs and drawings illustrate the various topics covered. Links to YouTube videos further enhance the readers experience of this somewhat eccentric hobby. As well as an entertaining personal history, this book aims to show inexpensive ways the reader with some DIY skills can construct a ride-on railway in their own garden, however small. You too, could be sashaying through the garden shrubbery in the dusk of a summer's evening or transporting children on a 'Santa special' through a starry Christmas Eve landscape. This book can inspire and assist you to achieve your dream.
One Man's Railway: 0 Gauge in the Garden
Author: Allen Jackson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398107654
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
One man's remarkable model railway, and how it came to be. Lavishly illustrated, this book will delight any modeller.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398107654
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
One man's remarkable model railway, and how it came to be. Lavishly illustrated, this book will delight any modeller.
One Man's Locomotives
Author: Vernon Lyle Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870460791
Category : ETATS-UNIS
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870460791
Category : ETATS-UNIS
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Railway Man
Author: Eric Lomax
Publisher: Charnwood
ISBN: 9781444819854
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred, and unable to form relationships, Lomax suffered for years - until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened. Almost 50 years after the war his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive; their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
Publisher: Charnwood
ISBN: 9781444819854
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred, and unable to form relationships, Lomax suffered for years - until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened. Almost 50 years after the war his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive; their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.
Narrow Gauge to No Man's Land
Author: Richard Dunn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Down in the Subway
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 9781932065244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Oscar was hot and bored on the subway train. Then he saw the Island Lady with a huge basket. "Want to know what's inside?" she asked. And out she brought a cool island breeze, the green Caribbean Sea, good things to eat� a calypso man and music and everone joined in the fun.
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 9781932065244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Oscar was hot and bored on the subway train. Then he saw the Island Lady with a huge basket. "Want to know what's inside?" she asked. And out she brought a cool island breeze, the green Caribbean Sea, good things to eat� a calypso man and music and everone joined in the fun.
The Municipal Review of Canada
Walt Disney's Railroad Story
Author:
Publisher: Carolwood Pacific LLC
ISBN: 0975858424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher: Carolwood Pacific LLC
ISBN: 0975858424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.