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Call The Big Hook by Dougherty Samuel - 1984

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Call The Big Hook

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Golden West, 1984. Unstated. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Call the Big Hook by Dougherty, Samuel Golden West Books, 1984,m unstated ed. ISBN: 0870950878 Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Clothe cover is clean, dust jacket shows slight signs of wear, with a small tear front otherwise clean. The Big Hook is the order given to the dispatcher when a train derails. This is the huge crane that railroads use to set right trains that have fallen off tracks, turned over or derailed in some way. Dougherty started as a section laborer working his way up to Road Forman. Several years of various Road Forman jobs lead to his being named Superintendent of Safety, Rules and Training and in that position for the Denver and Rio Grande he worked many times with the Big Hook. Great train wreck photos, stories of wrecks and how the mess was cleaned up using the Big Hook. B&W photos and illustrations, Glossary, two index's, 256 pages.

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  • ISBN 10 0870950878
  • ISBN 13 9780870950872
  • Publisher Golden West
  • Date Published 1984
  • Keywords TRAIN WRECKS, CRANES WRECKS

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San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1984. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. The story of the author's years of service with the Denver & Rio Grande Western. It illustrates the evolution of D&RGW safety practices and it presents the cause, effect and how a given accident could have been prevented. 256 pages with photographs. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy.
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