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Train Wreck

Author : George Bibel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421405903
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Train Wreck written by George Bibel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails

Trainwreck

Author : Sady Doyle
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612196489
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Trainwreck written by Sady Doyle and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smart ... compelling ... persuasive .” —New York Times Book Review She’s everywhere once you start looking: the trainwreck. She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against the boundaries of what it means to “behave.” Where did these women come from? What are their crimes? And what does it mean for the rest of us? For an age when any form of self-expression can be the one that ends you, Doyle’s book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate—an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.

Train Wrecks

Author : Robert C. Reed
Publisher : Pictorial History of Accidents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Train Wrecks written by Robert C. Reed and published by Pictorial History of Accidents. This book was released on 1996 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American railroad history is filled with accounts of misadventure. Steam boilers blew up. Bridges collapsed under the weight of heavy engines. Locomotives crashed head-on because of signal failures. Passenger cars derailed, often with dire results. Lightly built wooden coaches splintered on impact, and the debris often ignited from the coals in the iron stoves used for heating. In the mid-nineteenth century American railroading was burgeoning -- a growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of 19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot help but find the photographs and public prints of the day interesting. When you pick up this wondrous book, you will have a hard time putting it down.

Train Wreck Girl

Author : Sean Carswell
Publisher : Manic D Press
ISBN 13 : 1933149655
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Train Wreck Girl written by Sean Carswell and published by Manic D Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sean Carswell is a wonderful storyteller. . . . Reading his stuff makes you laugh and makes you think.”—Howard Zinn “[Carswell’s writing is] the antidote to what is so boring or safe or wrong with modern book publishing.”—Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned Train Wreck Girl is the funny and tragic story of one man’s quest to figure out what to do with his life now that it’s too late for him to die young. After finding his girlfriend dead on the railroad tracks right after breaking up with her, Danny McGregor—Flagstaff bartender and surfer without an ocean—rides the next bus out of Arizona, fleeing to his Cocoa Beach, Florida, hometown, where a maelstrom of past ghosts await. Back in Florida, his treacherous friend, Bart, finds Danny a job picking up corpses. Sophie, a former crazy girlfriend who stabbed Danny, wants to rekindle their relationship. Taylor, a twelve-year-old neighborhood girl, only wants Danny to teach her to surf. And then there’s Helen, with a face that launched a dozen Greyhounds. Through the chaos, Danny discovers his strengths amid all his weaknesses and is able to move forward while making peace with his past. Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. A co-founder of Gorsky Press, he is currently a professor at the University of California.

Train Wreck

Author : Donna Hogan
Publisher : Phoenix Audio
ISBN 13 : 9781597775403
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Train Wreck written by Donna Hogan and published by Phoenix Audio. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith, is the definitive story of the rise and tragic fall of a woman who became one of the most recognized celebrities in the world because of her voluptuous beauty and her devotion to sex, drugs, money and fame. Donna Hogan, Anna's sister and confidante to Anna and other family members, provides an intimate and mesmerizing view of how her sister broke away from anonymity, poverty and an abusive family, rocketed to fame, and then all-too-soon crashed to her death at the age of 39, weighed down by drugs, alcohol, lawsuits, scandal and the unexpected death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel. Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she left school in 10th grade, had a son by age 18, became a stripper at 20, and married a billionaire at 26. Vickie transformed herself through plastic surgery and sheer determination into Anna Nicole Smith, Playboys Playmate of the Year in 1993, spokesperson for Guess? Jeans and TrimSpa, and star of The Anna Nicole Show on E! She told everyone that she would be the next Marilyn Monroe and pursued that dream, right to her tragic end. Book jacket.

The Art of Avoiding a Train Wreck (paperback)

Author : Em Campbell-Pretty
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 035959445X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Avoiding a Train Wreck (paperback) written by Em Campbell-Pretty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918

Author : Richard M Lytle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231702
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918 written by Richard M Lytle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened on the circus train in 1918? Read the story of this tragedy for the entertainment industry of the time. In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed into the circus train. In the subsequent wreckage and blaze, more than two hundred circus performers were injured and eighty-six were killed, most of whom were interred in a mass grave in the Showmen's Rest section of Chicago's Woodlawn Cemetery. Join local historian Richard Lytle as he recounts, in the fullest retelling to date, the details of this tragedy and its role in the overall evolution and demise of a unique entertainment industry.

Train Wreck

Author : Elise Faber
Publisher : Elise Faber
ISBN 13 : 1946140015
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Train Wreck written by Elise Faber and published by Elise Faber. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepper O’Brien was Hollywood royalty. Also, her life sucked. Money couldn’t buy everything—including grace, true love, and the ability to not screw up. Every. Single. Time. Which was why Pepper had moved across the country to start over. Only, as was typical, her life had other plans. Namely in the form of Derek Cashette. Her former teenage crush and now ridiculously handsome man was her older brother’s friend. He was also determined to salvage the train wreck of her life. And maybe in doing that, he would save the train wreck that was her heart.

The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900

Author : Jeffery C. Wells
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423308X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900 written by Jeffery C. Wells and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company's Engine #7 and its passengers were greeted by a tremendous storm en route to Atlanta, Georgia. Stalled for some time in nearby McDonough, travelers grew impatient as rain pelted the roof and wind buffeted the cars. When finally given the go-ahead, their resulting joy was short-lived: the locomotive soon reached Camp Creek--and disaster. After weeks of constant showers, the swollen creek had eroded the bridge supports. Under the train's weight, the bridge collapsed, and all but nine perished in either the fiery fall or watery depths. With the help of local newspapers and eyewitness accounts, Georgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts this tragic tale.

Man Failure

Author : Gordon Bond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578929194
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Man Failure written by Gordon Bond and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-fiction account of the February 6, 1951 wreck of the Pennsylvania Railroad trains "The Broker" at Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Trainwreck

Author : Jeff Nichols
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143911286X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Trainwreck written by Jeff Nichols and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings. Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette's syndrome. In Trainwreck, his weird and witty memoir of utter dysfunction, Nichols gives an irreverent look at how one "idoit" made good.

Lost at Thaxton

Author : Michael E. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989004695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Lost at Thaxton written by Michael E. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889, a massive storm caused a tiny creek in Virginia to turn into a raging river, and the rushing waters washed away an embankment where the railroad crossed. Eighteen souls were lost when a passenger train plunged into the washout.

Love and Other Train Wrecks

Author : Leah Konen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062402528
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Love and Other Train Wrecks written by Leah Konen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Today.com Best Pick for Valentine’s Day! A whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about two teens who meet—and perhaps change their minds about love—on a train ride in the middle of a snowstorm. Leah Konen’s Love and Other Train Wrecks is perfect for fans of Emery Lord and Jennifer E. Smith. Noah is a hopeless romantic. He’s traveling home for one last chance with his first love, and he needs a miracle to win her back. Ammy doesn’t believe in true love—just look at her parents. If there’s one thing she’s learned about love in the last year, it’s that it ends. That is, until one winter night when Noah and Ammy find themselves in the same Amtrak car heading to Upstate New York. After a train-wreck first impression between the two of them, the Amtrak train suddenly breaks down—in the middle of a snowstorm. Desperate to make it to their destinations, Noah and Ammy have no other option but to travel together. What starts off as a minor detour turns into the journey of a lifetime, but come morning their adventure takes an unexpected turn for the worst. Can one night can really change how they feel about love...and the course of their lives forever?

The Diary of a Single, Train-Wreck, & Fabulous Mom

Author : Aria Jacobs
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546206027
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Single, Train-Wreck, & Fabulous Mom written by Aria Jacobs and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Diary of a Single, Train-wreck, & Fabulous Mom, Emelia overcomes an abusive relationship and embraces the role of single parenthood. Her daughters and veterinary technician career give her back the self esteem and strength she had lost long ago. Over the years of triumphing hardship through perseverance, Emelia realizes that she is capable of overcoming any obstacle. The pain and loneliness she endured as a single mom lead her down a spiritual path to finding her higher self. She learns to laugh through the days of endless disasters and find happiness in the midst of the never ending chaos. Through the dating catastrophes and single mom nights out amongst her “problem” of rescuing too many animals - Emelia realizes that although she is a complete trainwreck, she is fabulous.

Paddle Your Own Canoe

Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138325
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Paddle Your Own Canoe written by Nick Offerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.

The Wreck of the Penn Central

Author : Joseph R. Daughen
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781893122086
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Penn Central written by Joseph R. Daughen and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.

Trainwreck

Author : Bill Press
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470182407
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Trainwreck written by Bill Press and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A news commentator explains how the conservative movement went awry and traces its rise and fall from Robert Taft and Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, looking at the budget deficits, spending overruns, and corruption that has resulted from its missteps.