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This is the complete story of the unique RDC, a speedy self-propelled rail motor car, bristling with the latest rail innovations. This book discusses how the cars were built, their controls, and the various railroads that purchased them. Also considered is the RDC-9, the design changes of 1956, and modifications and re-builds by Morrison-Knudsen. There is a section about stainless steel and the "shotwelding" process, and a biography of the late Edward G. Budd. The large appendix section includes a description of each railroad than ran RDC's, how they were utilized, a complete roster, and a map showing the route of the RDC's.--Adapted from jacket.
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The anonymous hero whose brutal adventure is the horror at the heart of The Train Ride is a sailor; he has a vile hangover; he is due back on his ship in a few hours. Equipped with a fistful of dirty magazines, he stumbles onto the train. Half-asleep, bored, jaded, he thumbs through the girlie magazines, his appetite both inflamed and frustrated. What could he possibly do on a train? He looks around - and sees a frail little girl with braided blonde hair. It is here that the author begins his tale with a protagonist who is both villain and victim, both abominably sub-human and upsettingly familiar. His personality, his crime, and his desperate attempt to escape, combine to pose a moral problem not unlike that found in The Collector--Adapted from dust jacket flaps.
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A stormy sundown brought Grant McLain with his battered accordion to Junction City to accept a dangerous assignment from the railroad now building a spur into Montana's mountains. To McLain, disgraced railroad trouble-shooter, this meant a chance at redemption. And so he made passage through a long night, a night that included a railroad holdup and a kidnapping and reached a gunflame climax in a forgotten ghost town high in the Crazies. This is a story of taut suspense encompassed between a sundown and a sunup--Adapted from jacket.
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"In this swift, suspenseful novel of modern Africa, four white mean, mercenaries hired by the Army of Katange, take a native task force by train into the Congo interior to a little mining town threatened by hostile tribes. The boiling excitement of the story is heightened by the personal gethsemanes of the other white mercenaries. All find their destinies on the train from Katange, whether in death or in new life, or, in the case of Bruce Curry, in the rebirth of himself as a man able to believe again in love"--From dust jacket flap.
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This is the story of the first 100 years of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. From a modest start in 1879 as a locally controlled railroad the P&LE became, by 1900, one of the great traffic arteries of the country. The narrative chronicles why the railroad was built, who organized it, who financed and built it, and who ran it after it was built. The subsequent development of the railroad, its freight and passenger services, stations, terminals, bridges, steam and diesel motive power, etc., make up the main part of the book, explaining how the railroad earned the nickname "Little Giant." Included are complete rosters of steam and diesel motive power, a line profile, appropriate maps, and several paintings by Howard Fogg--Adapted from jacket.
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Visual Materials
Cabinet photograph of a street view of the Barasoain y Malolos train station in Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines. The station name is seen on a brick building with a smaller second story that may have been the station master's quarters. A few people are seated on benches under a wide awning. The station was built in 1891, along a route from Manila to Dagupan operated by the Philippine National Railways.
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