| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Youth -- Trackside childhood -- From newsboy to roundhouse : starting to work -- Fireman I -- Learning to fire -- Life along the rails -- My mentor on the road -- Fireman II -- At the rat hole flashing the door -- Old heads, rails, and boomers -- Railroad hazards and wrecks -- Engineer -- Engineer on the Rio Grande -- Running the Utah trains -- Life on the Utah Railway. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In 1917, Gilbert Gould achieved his dream to be an engineer, and began running engines for the Denver and Rio Grande and later for the Utah Railway. He was a natural storyteller, and his recollections are entertaining and historically rewarding. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961.
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Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961. (OCoLC)fst00356609
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Mountain railroads -- Utah -- History.
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Mountain railroads -- Utah -- Employees -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Mountain railroads. (OCoLC)fst01028302
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Mountain railroads -- Employees.
(OCoLC)fst01028303
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Utah. (OCoLC)fst01204563
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gould, William R., 1919-2006.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gould, William John Gilbert, 1888-1961. My life on mountain railroads. Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, 1995 (DLC) 95004427 (OCoLC)32666120 |
| ISBN |
9780874213478 (electronic bk.) |
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0874213479 (electronic bk.) |
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1283283328 |
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9781283283328 |
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9780874211931 |
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