Pacific Slope Railroads From 1854 to 1900

Door: Abdill, George B.

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• Uitgever: Bonanza Books
• Taal: Engels
• Categorie: hobby
• Details: 1959, cloth bound with dust jacket, dust jacket taped, good copy
• Extra informatie: It has been 64 years since old Engine No. 1 of the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad panted in from a thirty-five mile an hour flight over the windswept sands and had its picture taken. But to untold thousands the day might have been last week. In the minds of such enthusiasts steam railroads live in lively imagination forever. After the hearty welcome of Geo. B. Abdill’s first picture history, “This Was Railroading,” the author turns to the fortunes and fates of the railroads of the Old West. Drivers pound, steam hisses and smoke streams out of diamond stacks as the Central Pacific conquers the Sierra Mountains, the Union Pacific pushes west from the Rockies, the Utah & Northern operates in Mormon territory, short line and logging roads feed traffic into Pacific Coast terminals. Abdill has supplemented his own vast collection of railroadiana, by additions from other famous collections and from the private files of many of the old railroads themselves, and now he shares this superb combination with the reader.
• € 6.80