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Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin' by William A. Lansing Coos Co Oregon w/ DJ
Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin' by William A. Lansing
Cant You Hear the Whistle Blowin'
William A. Lansing
Logs, Lignite, and Locomotives in Coos County, Oregon
Hard cover dust jacket
143 Pages
Copyright 2007
Contents
PROLOGUE5
INTRODUCTION7
THE RICHES OF COOS BAY10
THE COMING OF THE RAILROADS34
THE COMPANIES56
OTHER PLAYERS108
APPENDIX: LOCOMOTIVES128
EPILOGUE138
BIBLIOGRAPHY140
INDEX142
During the second half of the nineteenth :century, the towns around Coos Bay, Oregon, grew from a few scattered homesteads to a bustling ocean-going port. The area's phenomenal growth was fueled by timber and coal. Nothing was more important in developing these resources than railroads. Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin' is the complete story of how these vital transportation links were built by daring entrepreneurs who drove lines of steel deep into the area's rugged mountains and deep canyons.
From backwoods engines and wooden rails to town celebrations and, bay-spanning bridges, Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin' brings to life a time and a place vital to the history of Oregon and the West. Author William A. "Bill" Lansing has drawn upon decades of first-hand knowledge of the area, backed by hundreds of facts and figures and countless hours of historical research, to produce a compendium of colorful stories of this robust time.
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