The Crookedest Railroad in the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crookedest Railroad in the World write by Theodore G. Wurm. This book was released on 1960. The Crookedest Railroad in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Here is a readable history of the railway's 30 years of existence -- its planning and construction, branch lines, methods of operation. Read about how it pioneered in novel equipment, watering wheels, heating feedwater in the stack, and being one of the first to use oil burning locomotives exclusively"-- book jacket.
Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway
Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway write by Fred Runner. This book was released on 2009. Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A hundred years ago, high on the summit of Mount Tamalpais, stood a grand lodge with a breathtaking view. For 33 years, elegantly dressed men and women came to visit on the gritty steam trains of a famous twisting railroad known affectionately as the Crookedest Railroad in the World. They could dine, dance, and spend the night, and in the morning coast down the mountain in a gravity car. The Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway had 281 curves in 8 1/5 miles. It had a branch into Muir Woods. It was built by business-minded conservationists in seven months in 1896 and climbed from a depot on the dirt streets of Mill Valley through a redwood forest and on to the rocky summit one-half mile above San Francisco Bay"--P. [4] of cover.
The Crookedest Railroad in the World
The Crookedest Railroad in the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crookedest Railroad in the World write by Ted Wurm. This book was released on 1983. The Crookedest Railroad in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagine 281 curves, which make 42 complete circles in 8.5 miles of track. This book, filled with 216 photos, tells the history of California's Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods railroad, known as "The Crookedest Railroad in the World."
Lost Railways of the World
Lost Railways of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Railways of the World write by Nigel Welbourn. This book was released on 2023-02-16. Lost Railways of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn’s long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for this volume has been collected and researched over a period of almost fifty years of world travel by the author. Informative text records the fortunes of the world’s lost railways and every country with significant disused railways is included. Lost railways are a unifying theme, being found throughout the world, from the hottest African desert to the coldest steppes of Russia. The book has a surprisingly British flavor as historically many railways throughout the world used British equipment and operating practices. On his first trip in the 1970s the author discovered British signaling equipment in Europe. In 2020 he discovered the same firms’ equipment in South America. The world’s top ten lost lines are listed, from the seven-mile-long sea bridge on a line that ran through the Florida Keys, to the rugged mountain splendor of the Khyber Pass Railway. Some of the oldest, largest, longest, most northerly, southerly, expensive, crookedest, steepest, highest, lowest and most notorious lost railways are included. Quirky and other unique tales from lost railways are included, such as the disappearing phantom bridge, a line destroyed by molten lava, to one that sank under the sea, another that conveyed giant turtles, to a memorial to a brave railway elephant. The author also visited remote areas of Argentina and provides more information on the mysterious disappearance of the ex-Lynton & Barnstaple Railway locomotive Lew. A large number of the 300 color illustrations have not been published before, maps and stories from around the world will delight not only the railway enthusiast, but appeal to a wider cadre of readers with an interest in nostalgia, history, geography and travel. To some the book will be an informative source of information, to others it is written in a way that highlights the most amazing lost railways in the world, but either way it is a fascinating and unique book.
Dreams of Tamalpais
Dreams of Tamalpais - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of Tamalpais write by Sharon Skolnick. This book was released on 1989. Dreams of Tamalpais available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
