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Big Dan The Story of a Colorful Railroader by Frank Cunningham Signed letter
Big Dan The Story of a Colorful Railroader by Frank Cunningham Signed Letter
Big Dan The Story of a Colorful Railroader
Frank Cunningham
Hard Cover Dust jacket dust jacket has damage. IS in multiple pieces.
350 pages
Copyright 1946
List of Illustrations
Big Dan Frontispiece
Captain George Cunningham 27
Three Little Confederates 27
Virginia and Tennessee Train 28
"The Pocahontas" 28
Victorious Southerners 61
The Mighty "Dictator" 61
General Herman Haupt 61
Railroad Fighting in Virginia 62
Five Locomotives Built at Vicksburg 62
1838City Point Railroad 83
General William Mahone 83
The Old "Dick Thomson" 84
An A. M. & 0. Passenger Locomotive 84
Locomotive Used by the Shenandoah Valley 84
Big Dan and Classmate 129
Inez Eley Cunningham 129
Norfolk and Western Family 130
The Famed "Shou-wa-no" 227
First Standard Gauge Rio Grande Western Train 227
General William Jackson Palmer 228
Poster Proclaiming the Conquest of the Rockies 228
Marshall Pass 237
Five Car Freight on the Slopes of Marshall Pass 238
When Wood was King238
The Royal Gorge Conquered 255
One of the Scenic Wonders of American Railroading256
Action on the Moffat when Big Dan was Superintendent281
Roaring Across the Top of the West 281
David H. Moffat 282
Engine Designed by Big Dan282
"Teakettle" Narrow Gauge Locomotives 299
A Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Stock Train299
Power in the Mountains 300
Moffat's Railroad Carries On300
A Heavy Rio Grande Locomotive Thunders
Through Glenwood Canyon309
A Norfolk and Western Coal Train310
Giants of the Rails 310
"Let Her Roll, Let Her Roll, Mr. Engineer" 319
It's not Always Fair Weather on the Rio Grande 319
Frank H. Cunningham319
Means of Transportation 320
Judge Wilson McCarthy 329
Henry Swan 329
W. H. Sagstetter 329
W. B. Hall 329
H. S. Wall330
Frank Haymond 330
R. G. Henley 330
J. D. Loftis 330
L. C. Sprague 330
Julian Bamberger 330
President Heber J. Grant and Big Dan 335
Famous American Legion Engine336
From little short lines with two engines to the mightiest railroad dynasties, one will find someone who has known or worked with Big Dan. The renown of the six feet four, 250 pound railroader, has almost reached the legendary stage of Casey Jones. He is as much a part of the great Rocky Mountain region as Pike's Peak, the Great Salt Lake or the Continental Divide.
For over thirty-two years at Salt Lake City Big Dan was an official of the picturesque Denver and Rio Grande Western and an outstanding figure in Rocky Mountain life. At Denver, he helped run the Denver and Salt Lake, the famed Moffat railroad, over "the top of the world."
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