Author: Dean Forest Railway Museum TrustPublisher: Railway Heritage
ISBN: 9781857944815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rails Through the Forest
Author: Dean Forest Railway Museum TrustPublisher: Railway Heritage
ISBN: 9781857944815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rails to the Forest
Author: Dean Forest Railway Museum TrustPublisher: Silver Link
ISBN: 9781857943450
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The preserved Dean Forest Railway, occupying 4 miles of the once extensive railway network in the Forest, celebrates 40 years of operation in 2010, and to mark the event this copiously illustrated souvenir volume has been compiled by the DFR Museum Trust.
Rails to the Forest 2nd Edition
Author: Bob MarrowsPublisher: Silver Link Publishing
ISBN: 9781857945980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Author: Kristin HarmelPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982158948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
Rails
Author: Barry TaylorPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140813537X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogeneous family of birds spread throughout the world. Barry Taylor and Ber van Perlo have described and illustrated 145 species of rails, including two that are newly described, and also ten that are recently extinct and two that are almost certainly extinct. The book, based on up-to-date references and on new observations, is the first to give comprehensive information on field identification (including voice), covering all species and races for which details are known. It is also the first to provide descriptions of the immature and juvenile plumages of many species. The authors provide a detailed summary of current knowledge of all aspects of rail biology and their often complex behaviour, social structure, and family life. They explain how such apparently poorly flying birds can undertake intercontinental migrations and are such widespread and successful colonists of remote oceanic islands. They also discuss the remarkable ease and speed with which species on such islands have evolved into flightless forms in the absence of predators, a fact that has led to the rapid extinction of numerous island taxa following the arrival of man. Rail habitats are fast disappearing, say the authors, and many rails become endangered before enough is known about them to plan effective conservation measures. The book provides information on distribution, status, habitat requirements, and current threats, and it gives conservation priorities for threatened species.
Rails to Rubicon
Author: Peter EvansPublisher:
ISBN: 9780909340544
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Rubicon Forest was acknowledged as containing some of the finest stands of timber in the state of Victoria. Due to the rugged terrain, little could be done to exploit the timber until an efficient and economical means of transport could be provided. Light railways, (or tramways), were commonly used to deliver timber from Victorian forests to the closest Government railway. The first timber tramway in the Rubicon Forest was completed in 1907, but terminated some distance from a railhead. The railway to Alexandra was opened in 1909 and, in 1912, the railway and forest tramway were connected by a steel-railed tramway. This link was the principal method of timber transport in the district until 1947 when competition from road transport forced its closure.Rails to Rubicon tells the story of the sawmills and tramways of the Rubicon Forest. Around each mill was a cluster of houses. Keeping warm, dry and well fed was not as easy in the forest as it was in a rural township, and this book describes what it was like to live in one of these isolated settlements. Schools and facilities for entertainment had to be provided, often on steep hillsides miles from anywhere. Yet the inhabitants of the settlements led full and contented lives despite the dangerous nature of the work and the isolation and altitude of the mill settlements.Although sawmilling forms the central theme of this book, it is not the only one. Forests provided a seasonal home to the Aboriginal people and to the pastoralists who followed and displaced them. Fire is a major theme in forest history and Rails to Rubicon describes the fire practices of the graziers using the forest and the fire-exclusion policies of the forest managers who eventually forced them out. The utilisation of the water resources of the forest is also explored, and a chapter describes the historic Rubicon hydro-electric scheme.
Rails to Penn State
Author: Michael BezillaPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811702317
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
More than five hundred short line railroads existed in the United States at the industry's height, and Pennsylvania had more than any other state. The history of the Bellefonte Central, which operated in central Pennsylvania from the 1880s until 1982, is a classic story of the rise and decline of short line railroads nationwide. Connecting with the Pennsylvania Railroad--a company that proved to be both friend and foe--the Bellefonte Central played an important role in developing the region's renowned limestone and hot-blast ironmaking industries and was Penn State University's economic lifeline for generations.
Rails of the World
Author: Sidney Dillon RipleyPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780919880078
Category : Rails (Birds)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Rails Through the Bush
Author: Jeff AustinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980392227
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Rails to Sterling Forest
Author: Kevin OlsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733156691
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This extensive history of the Erie Railroad's Greenwood Lake Division covers everything from the railroad's construction as the Montclair Railway in the 1870s through its subsequent reorganizations as the Montclair & Greenwood Lake Railway and later the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway. The line's eventual acquisition by the Erie gives way to the Erie Lackawanna merger, Conrail, and the line's current use by NJ Transit. With over 100 pages of text supplemented by a plethora of historic black & white and color photos and reproduced documents, this is the definitive story of rail service along a scenic New Jersey route.