Eric James Cameron

eBook, ePUB

Steam in the Blood (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This book is all about trains and my experiences with them together with the years of service in the locomotive area. I am recording as best as I can in this book the memoirs of my time as a fireman on the South African railways and as a scrap metal merchant in Northern Rhodesia now known as Zambia. The idea of writing of my experiences germinated when I was working on contract in the Republic of Mali, North Africa. I was commissioning a hydroelectric power station and, as there was nothing to do on off days, decided to write my memoirs. The more I wrote the more the memories came back, and I was eventually astounded of what I remembered.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
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• Größe: 15.59MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

My name is Eric James Cameron. I was born in Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa, on 27 July 1940 and was educated at Sydenham Primary School and Victoria Park High in Port Elizabeth. After high school, I joined the South African Railways as a fireman and remained in the service for five years until immigrating to Northern Rhodesia, now known as Zambia. I managed a scrap metal business in the town of Mufulira on the Congo border for two years and then returned to South Africa, where I started my career in power generation. My career in power generation spanned forty-five years, and I worked up through the ranks to the position of senior shift supervisor in five different power stations, fossil-fired, pumped-storage, hydroelectric, and open-cycle gas turbine stations. I was married in 1965 and was blessed with four children, three daughters and a son. I retired in 2009 at the age of sixty-nine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482883329
• Artikelnr.: 52591001