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About the Book
Early in Joe Harris's railroad career, one of his supervisors
told him, "You have to blow your own horn; nobody's going to blow
it for you." Harris tried to live by these words. And in this
memoir, he also describes blowing a horn of another sort--that of a
railroad engineer. Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad recaps Harris's
thirty-six-year stint working on the railroad--from his debut as an
electrician's helper in 1969 with the Burlington Northern Railroad
to becoming an engineer in 1974. In his thirty years working as a
locomotive engineer, Harris hit twenty vehicles and killed three
people with the train. With a focus toward safety, Harris discusses
becoming a volunteer presenter with Operation Lifesaver, a program
designed to help save people's lives around railroad tracks.
Including a comprehensive glossary of railroad terminology, Hell of
a Way to Run a Railroad presents a fascinating look into the many
and varied facets of working on the railroad with both passenger
trains and freight trains--from the interesting locals to the
quirky co-workers.
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