KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK:; Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a First-Class Fireman...
by Kinne, George R
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- Condition
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Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).
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- Bookseller
- R & A Petrilla, ABAA, IOBA
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- BOOKS008492I
- Title
- KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK:; Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a First-Class Fireman...
- Author
- Kinne, George R
- Format/binding
- Full-Leather
- Book condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- Original manuscript
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers
- Place of Publication
- Hornellsville, NY
- Date published
- 1902
- Keywords
- railroads; engineers; firemen; trains; new york state; handwritten; travel; coal furnaces
- Bookseller catalogs
- Railroads;
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