Author: Joe Dale MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Southern Pacific's Slim Princess in the Sunset, 1940-1960
Author: Joe Dale MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Southern Pacific's Slim Princess
Author: Andrew BrandonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467108782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
For 60 years, the Southern Pacific's Slim Princess served as the lifeline to remote areas of western Nevada and eastern California. In 1880, the financiers of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad organized the Carson & Colorado Railroad to build a narrow-gauge line from the Carson River to the Colorado River, but that dream was never fully realized. In 1900, the Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the 300-mile line, envisioning it as a shortcut from Nevada to Southern California. The northern half of the line was converted to standard gauge in 1905. The section from Mina, Nevada, to Keeler, California, remained an isolated and celebrated part of the Southern Pacific until it succumbed to the scrapper's torch in 1960. Author Andrew Brandon has over 30 years of extensive study in railroad history and involvement with noteworthy projects in the railroad preservation community. Since 2001, he has been involved with the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in Nevada City, where he currently serves as the curator. Brandon also serves on board of directors for the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Historical Society and the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway. In 2009, he helped establish PacificNG.org--a website dedicated to researching narrow-gauge railroads around the Pacific Rim.
Southern Pacific in California
Author: Kerry SullivanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738582078
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Southern Pacific Railroad is California's railroad. As the Central Pacific, it bored and blasted its way east from Sacramento, across the towering High Sierra, meeting with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and profoundly changing the growing United States. By the early 20th century, the Southern Pacific was a rail colossus, stretching from San Francisco Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the Southern Pacific remained essentially Californian. Its rail lines gave muscle to the lovely California coast, the fertile San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys, and the timber industry of the north coast. Yet for all its might and majesty, for many Californians the Southern Pacific was a smaller, more intimate part of the fabric of their daily lives.
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author: Worrall Reed CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logistics, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Adult Catalog: Subjects
Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Churchill War Papers
Author: Winston ChurchillPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393019599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
The much-anticipated third volume of Churchill's fascinating papers.
Guide to North American Steam Locomotives
Author: Publisher: Waukesha, WI : Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 9780890242063
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History and development of steam power since 1900, including railroad-by-railroad histories and rosters.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun
Author: Jay M. PasachoffPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592570744
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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My Omaha Obsession
Author: Miss CassettePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496207610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people—celebrating the city’s unusual and overlooked history
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