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Transatlantic Railwayman

Author : Mitchell Deaver
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504920562
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Railwayman written by Mitchell Deaver and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Railway Boy and Railway Man Mitchell Deaver now describes in Transatlantic Railwayman his adventures as a former British Railways employee thrust into the midst of American railroading. Mitchell Deaver begins a new career in 1989 with the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, where he learns the rudiments of American railroading: hand signals, radio use and how to couple and uncouple freight cars. Hundred-car coal trains are an important aspect of work on this short line. In 1994 Mitchell Deaver moves to Conrail, where he trains to become a conductor on long-distance freight trains serving the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. He masters territory totalling 780 route miles that includes thirty-two different yards and that stretches through the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He relishes humorous exchanges with fellow workers. He becomes familiar with railroading terms of jitney, deadheading, footboard relief and thirty-day bump. He delights in railroad names of Karny, McCalls Ferry, Monty, Pomeroy, Port Road, Shellpot, Tillys and Trenton Line. Ride the rails with Mitchell Deaver and share experiences that range from the puzzling and unsettling through the revealing and exhausting to the exciting and exhilarating-experiences that even include a revelation!

The Railway Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Railway Gazette

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Transatlantic Persuasion

Author : Robert Kelley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000680150
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Transatlantic Persuasion written by Robert Kelley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work is the basic and largely unmatched study of the single transatlantic community of thought shared by nineteenth century British and Canadian Liberals and American Democrats. The result of more than ten years of comparative research, The Transatlantic Persuasion explores the roots of those ideas that comprise a coherent Liberal-Democratic worldview: ideas about society, human relations, the economy, equality, liberty, the ethnocultural dimension of life, the proper role and nature of government and the world community.

Railway Man

Author : Mitchell Deaver
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477299726
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Railway Man written by Mitchell Deaver and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway Man begins with author Mitchell Deaver paying a nostalgic visit to Bickle signal box, base of boyhood adventures described in his first book Railway Boy. Shortly after, he leaves rural Yorkshire for life in the big cities. It is 1968. Railway Man describes the emotionally devastating draw-down of steam traction on British Railways. Three steam sheds remain: Carnforth, Lostock Hall and Rose Grove. The end comes when the last steam train runs on 11th August. The total steam ban is unbearable. Mitchell Deaver's brainchild, the Return to Steam Committee, tries to get steam back on British Railways. In 1980 Mitchell Deaver achieves a boyhood dream and becomes a signalman on the busy North London Line. Railway Man describes the realities of operating a mechanical signal box, one that is open continuously. Life as a signalman is not without incident. A mischievous letter prompts a visit from senior management. Signal box operations degenerate into a scene from the Marx Brothers. A signalmen's night out turns into a baffling conspiracy. In this true story set in the cities of Birmingham, Liverpool and London and spanning two decades, Railway Man describes a monumental battle between, on one side, Mitchell Deaver's love of railways and, on the other, forces that try to draw him elsewhere. Which side wins?

Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Locomotive Magazine and Railway Carriage & Wagon Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Locomotive Magazine and Railway Carriage & Wagon Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Locomotive Railway Carriage and Wagon Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Locomotive Railway Carriage and Wagon Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Locomotive Magazine and Railway Carriage and Wagon Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Locomotive Magazine and Railway Carriage and Wagon Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railway Times

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transatlantic Intellectual Networks, 1914-1964

Author : Hans Bak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527543390
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Intellectual Networks, 1914-1964 written by Hans Bak and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this book – by scholars from the U.S., France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic – offer new transnational perspectives in transatlantic historical, literary, and cultural studies. They explore the special role of American and European intellectuals as agents of transatlantic cultural transfer, and examine the mechanisms and instruments through which artists, writers and intellectuals communicated across oceans and national borders, in the half century between 1914 and 1964. Their focus is on transatlantic networks and the instruments of culture through which such networks become operative as sites of cross-cultural exchange, circulation and interaction: magazines, cafés, publishing houses, book fairs, agents, translators, and mediators – and last but not least, transatlantic personal friendships. Contending that the dynamics of transatlantic cultural transfer need to be understood as reciprocal and multi-directional, they also exemplify the shift within transatlantic intellectual history from a traditional concern with European-U.S. relations to a multidirectional, triangular exploration of cultural, political and intellectual relations between Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

False Starts & Near Misses

Author : Geoff Body
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075098189X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book False Starts & Near Misses written by Geoff Body and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running a railway is a complex business beset with drama. The operation of heavy equipment at speed, twenty-four hours a day, across the full length of the country and using extremely technical signaling, track and mechanical engineering is no mean feat and throws up a constant stream of challenges. Fortunately, the highly professional railway staff are ready to deal with these daily obstacles using their expertise, dedication and, as is so often required, a sense of humour. Here Geoff Body and his son Ian have collated a selection of entertaining and revealing anecdotes that illustrate just how unexpected working on the railways can be.

Railway Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1936-07 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317042344
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science written by John Holmes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.

Transatlantic Train: The Untold Story of the Boston Merchant Who Launched Donald McKay to Fame

Author : Vincent J. Miles
Publisher : Dorchester Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Train: The Untold Story of the Boston Merchant Who Launched Donald McKay to Fame written by Vincent J. Miles and published by Dorchester Historical Society. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enoch Train rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most important maritime figures in nineteenth-century Boston: owner of the city's most successful transatlantic shipping line, and chief patron of its legendary shipbuilder, Donald McKay. In telling Enoch's story, Transatlantic Train also provides fascinating insights into many of the era's defining themes and events: The fierce rivalries between the United States and Britain, New York and Boston, sail and steam. The catastrophic Great Famine in Ireland (during which President John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather arrived in Boston on one of Train's ships built for him by McKay). The California Gold Rush. The fabled clipper ships. The rising tensions between North and South over slavery. And the perils of sailing the stormy Atlantic. Weaving these subjects seamlessly into an absorbing narrative, Transatlantic Train becomes much more than the remarkable tale of a poor orphan from a country village who somehow rose to the top of Boston's maritime community. It also serves as a guide to many of the currents and crosswinds that set Boston and the United States on course to become the city and nation they are today.

The Railway Times

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transatlantic Connections

Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587295997
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Connections written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of textual readings and cultural comparisons, M. Wynn Thomas explores Whitman’s amazing ability to appeal across distances and centuries. The book’s contrasting sections reflect the two locations studied: the first shows Whitman in his time and place, while the second repositions him within the cultures of England and Wales from the late 19th to the late 20th century. In the opening chapter he is placed against the vivid, outrageous background of the New York of his time; the second finds evidence in his poetry of a critique of the new urban politics of the emerging city boss; the third radically redefines Whitman's relationship to his famous contemporary Longfellow. Other chapters deal with the Civil War poet, exploring the ways in which his poetic responses were in part shaped by his relationship to his soldier brother George, and his use of the meteorological discoveries of his day to fashion metaphors for imaging the different phases of the conflict. The second section ponders the paradox that this Whitman, who was so much the product of his specific time and limited “local” culture, should come to be accepted as an international visionary. The United Kingdom is taken as offering striking instances of this phenomenon, and his transatlantic admirers are shown to have been engaged in an unconscious process of “translating” Whitman into the terms of their own culturally specific social, political, and sexual preoccupations. Some of the connections explored are those between Whitman and Edward Carpenter, the so-called English Whitman; between Whitman and perhaps his greatest English critic, D. H. Lawrence; and between Whitman and the Welsh poets Ernest Rhys, Amanwy (David Rees Griffiths), Niclas y Glais (T. E. Nicholas), Waldo Williams, Glyn Jones, Dylan Thomas, and R. S. Thomas. This bold and original study, offering new points of entry into understanding Whitman as the product of his time and place as well as understanding the reception of Whitman in the U.K. as a process of cultural translation, should fascinate scholars of Whitman and students of comparative literature.