Train talk
Subtitle: an illustrated guide to lights, hand signals, whistles, and other languages of railroading
By: by Roger Yepsen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Railroads -- Juvenile literature.; Railroads.; Railroads -- Signaling.; Signals and signaling.
Description: An introduction to the language of railroading, in which words, colored lights, flags, semaphore arms, coded whistles, hand signals, flares, and explosive alarms are used to guide trains and announce their arrivals and departures.