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Last of the 3 Foot Loggers By Allan Krieg w/ Dust Jacket 162 8th printing 1975
Last of the 3 Foot Loggers By Allan Krieg 94 Pages
California's erstwhile Hetch Hetchy & Yosemite Valleys Railway, latterly known as West Side Lumber Company's logging railroad, was nearly overlooked by rail buffs and generally disregarded by iron horse historians. When they did descend with tape recorder and camera upon secluded tracks that wound high out of the Sierra foothills at Tuolumne, they were almost too late. By 1960, West Side's curious, sidewinding Shay locomotives had ceased their ratchety echoing among the sugar pines.
In its last dear days it was unique. It was the remaining narrow gauge logging railroad west of the Rockies. And it had the largest stable of steam engines still running in the state.
When it was a-building at the turn of the century, there were great hopes the HH&YV would be heavily patronized by travelers to the sights of Yosemite-rivaling Hetch Hetchy valley and Calaveras Big Trees. Some said it would be an important ore hauler in the East Belt of the Mother Lode. Some foresaw its becoming a link in a narrow gauge system spanning the West. But aside from carrying occasional company picnic parties, it never moved more than logs.
For all the dreamers' disappointments, it was a lot of railroad. In its half-century-plus, within a 12-by 18-mile area, the geared engines clattered up and down and around on a 70-mile main line, and felt their way over 250 miles of unsure, pick-me-up-and-lay-me down spur tracks.
Last Of The Three foot Loggers. . . is a comprehensive account of this nearly neglected little railroad, its good times and bad, its engines and engineers, accidents and anecdotes. The entertaining text is backed up with a splendid selection of pictures and a spy-in-the-sky map of its main line and all the spurs that scrabbled into rugged country to tap the timber wealth.
Allan Krieg is a public relations man for Union Pacific Railroad. His is the kind of job most rail- fans would give anything to have: It takes him all over the big western system. But long before he became a railroader, he became a railfan. That was in 1944 at his first sight of the enchanting Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway in India - subject of his first published writing. Ever since, he's been intrigued with the quaint and unusual among the world's railroads. He is the author of numerous western travel articles, and directed "Last of the Giants," a film about UP's Big Boy locomotives.
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