Description: Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell Cover painting by Mike Pearsall. In the lexicon of the Old West, few names conjure-up more dreams of glory than that of the Carson & Colorado Railroad. Henry Yerington and the moneybags of the Bank of California built it; Lucius Beebe enshrined it; Carl Fallberg satirized it; while time and the Washoe winds have all but erased its path. It has been called, and fittingly so, the "Slim Princess" owing in part to the fact that her rails were spaced a mere three feet apart. It was also said to have been built "300 miles too long or 300 years too soon." But nevertheless, it survived in part even the greatest of the Nevada short lines . . . the famous and fabulously rich Virginia & Truckee. It was in fact, the V&T and her wealth that financed the Carson & Colorado, not only providing its northern connection at Mound House, Nevada, now only a memory; but its visionary plan of connecting the Carson River with the distant Colorado River and all the silver and gold towns that would spring-up between. Originated, planned, pushed, financed and built by the Virginia & Truckee Railway in the early 1880's, the Carson & Colorado was all too soon a waif, unwanted and then finally unloaded on the unsuspecting but all powerful Southern Pacific . . . just two months before news of the Tonopah gold boom resounded across the great basin and overshadowed the queen of the Comstock herself, Virginia City. Table of Contents: Train Time Dedication Acknowledgments Foreword Preface: Desert Commotions Chapter 1: The Slim Princess Chapter 2: Bonanza In The Desert Chapter 3: Mixed Train From Mina Chapter 4: Narrow Gauge To Nowhere Chapter 5: Twilight On The Narrow Gauge Chapter 6: Like The Lost Tribe Rosters Roster Index Bibliography271 Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge At A Glance265 Hardcover with dust jacket: 272 pages Publisher: Pacific Fast Mail, 1982 Shipping weight: 1.5 kg Out of print Carefully packaged and shipped Within Canada --- The service is Canada Post Expedited To the United States --- The service is Canada Post Tracked Parcel- USA To all other destinations worldwide --- The service is Canada Post International Airmail I combine shipping, check out my other listings in my Ebay Store!
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Publication Year: 1982
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge
Author: Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher: Pacific Fast Mail
Topic: Railway
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States