David Page Morgan
Autor de Steam's Finest Hour
Sobre El Autor
Obras de David Page Morgan
Confessions of a Train-Watcher: Four Decades of Railroad Writing by David P. Morgan (1997) 17 copias
How to Build a Speech Recognition Application: Second Edition: A Style Guide for Telephony Dialogues (2001) 3 copias
Our GM Scrapbook 3 copias
Neural Networks and Speech Processing (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) (1991) 2 copias
Trains, vol. 47, n° 7 - May 1987 1 copia
Trains vol. 45 1 copia
In Search Of Steam 1953-1954 1 copia
Locomotive 4501 1 copia
Trains & Travel, October 1953 1 copia
Trains & Travel, September 1953 1 copia
Trains & Travel, August 1953 1 copia
Trains & Travel, July 1953 1 copia
Trains, vol. 42, n° 7 - May 1982 1 copia
Trains, vol. 41, n° 7 - May 1981 1 copia
Trains, vol. 43, n° 7 - May 1983 1 copia
Trains, vol. 44, n° 7 - May 1984 1 copia
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 129
- Miembros
- 273
- Popularidad
- #84,854
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 11
The section on Train-watching opens with Mr. Morgan’s description of his first encounters with trains as a boy and the anticipation, excitement, and letdown of experiencing the wait, the arrival, and the departure of the local train on its daily trip through his small town of Monticello, Georgia in the 1930’s and it ends with his 1957 essay which is source of the book title. In that essay he describes how he converted his hobby of train watching into a full time job by becoming the editor of Trains.
Reporting on the industry includes articles about technical developments (Super-Power, The diesel that did it), important people (Can Mr. B Save Miss Katy?, A conversation with A.E. Perlman), characters (The railfan, Why boys leave home), and various other aspects of the railroad scene.
Travel is just that – articles about Mr. Morgan’s rail travel experiences in the U.S. and other countries. Essays and reminiscence is a collection of Mr. Morgan’s thoughts and observations on topics as diverse as Cincinnati Union Terminal, his love affair with the L&N, the railroads on-again off-again interest in electrification, and a guest article by Wake Hoagland extolling the virtues of the railroad advertising agents (Tractive effort of the adjective).
The essays vary in length from 1 to 9 pages which, given the dimensions of the book and the font size, translates into normal book size page lengths of 1 to 18 pages. The essays are well written and range from the informative and technical to the philosophical and humorous. If you like reading about trains, I think you will enjoy this book. See Common Knowledge for some quotes from the book. (Text Length - 160 pages, Total Length - 160 pages.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH - 11.25 x.5 x 8.25)… (más)