Rails in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta
Author | : John R. Signor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John R. Signor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John R. Signor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781930013025 |
Author | : Donovan L. Hofsommer |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781603441278 |
Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
Author | : William C. Miesse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) |
ISBN | : |
An annotated bibliography of "selected books, articles, manuscripts, ephemera, and audiovisual materials pertaining to the Native Americans, early exploration, mountaineering, history, legends, literature, tourism, art and science of the Mount Shasta volcano, California."
Author | : Jeff Moore |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738555645 |
California's northeastern corner is dominated by the 14,162-foot-tall presence of Mount Shasta. On the southeastern flank of the great mountain lies the picturesque town of McCloud. The McCloud River Railroad established its operational headquarters in the town in 1897. The next seven decades saw the railroad and the affiliated McCloud River Lumber Company carve hundreds of miles of railroad into the pine forests and lava beds east of McCloud, eventually reaching as far as Lookout to the east and the Burney Basin to the south. The McCloud River Railroad eked out a living hauling lumber, diatomaceous earth, and occasional tourists until 1992, when the new McCloud Railway Company purchased the property. In 1996, the new owners launched the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train to supplement the declining freight business. Economic conditions forced the railroad to abandon the entire railway east of McCloud in 2006, but the dinner train has kept rolling, keeping the rails west of McCloud shiny.
Author | : Frederick L. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2013-10-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1610589106 |
The history of railroading in North America is as much a story of boardroom intrigue as it is a story of the brute force that stamped thousands of miles of train track across a rugged continent. Today’s nine U.S. and Canadian Class I railroads are the result of well over a century of convoluted bankruptcies, mergers, acquisitions, and expansions. North American Railroad Family Trees marks the first time in book form that this major aspect of railroad history has been presented in a clear, graphic format, helping the railfan make sense of the many smaller train lines that shaped North American rail as it is today. In these pages, renowned rail author Brian Solomon takes a visual and chronological approach, presenting 50 “family trees” in the style of human lineages. The story begins with the railroads of the “Golden Age” (1890–1930), continuing through the second wave of consolidations between the World Wars, the merger mania of the 1950s through the 1970s, the creation of major passenger networks, and the megamergers of the last three decades that have left railroading close to its current incarnation. Solomon even offers a selection of maps tracing the evolution of the North American rail system and diagrams proposing what-if scenarios for the industry’s future. Including chapter-by-chapter narrative overviews of key eras, along with a selection of rare photography and period advertising to lend historical context, North American Railroad Family Trees provides an unprecedented retrospective of the continent’s iconic rail network.
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781610605076 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 986 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Crestline Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0785835334 |
"An illustrated look at some of North America's most iconic locomotive models from the 19th century to the present, organized alphabetically by landmark railroads"--