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Train talk : an illustrated guide to lights, hand signals, whistles, and other languages of railroading  Cover Image Book Book

Train talk : an illustrated guide to lights, hand signals, whistles, and other languages of railroading

Yepsen, Roger B. (Author).

Summary: An introduction to the language of railroading, in which words, colored lights, flags, semaphore arms, coded whistles, hand signals, flares, and explosive alarms are used to guide trains and announce their arrivals and departures.

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  • ISBN: 9780394857503 :
  • ISBN: 97803949575010 (lib. bdg.)
  • ISBN: 039485750X :
  • ISBN: 0394957504 (lib. bdg.)
  • Physical Description: print
    85 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1983.
Subject: Railroads -- Juvenile literature
Railroads
Railroads -- Signaling
Signals and signaling

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Summary: An introduction to the language of railroading, in which words, colored lights, flags, semaphore arms, coded whistles, hand signals, flares, and explosive alarms are used to guide trains and announce their arrivals and departures.

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