It takes the average reader 3 hours and 14 minutes to read Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad by Joe Harris
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p> About the Book Early in Joe Harris’s railroad career, one of his supervisors told him, “You have to blow your own horn; nobody’s going to blow it for you.” Harris tried to live by these words. And in this memoir, he also describes blowing a horn of another sort—that of a railroad engineer. Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad recaps Harris’s thirty-six-year stint working on the railroad—from his debut as an electrician’s helper in 1969 with the Burlington Northern Railroad to becoming an engineer in 1974. In his thirty years working as a locomotive engineer, Harris hit twenty vehicles and...
Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad by Joe Harris is 188 pages long, and a total of 48,504 words.
This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to read Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad aloud.
Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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