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Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint

Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint


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Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke Dust Jacket reprint
 
Full Steam Across the Mountains by Phil Belbin & David Burke
Hard Cocver with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1981  
144 pages Indexed.


Contents
Introduction7
CHAPTER ONE11
Head-on at the Emu
CHAPTER TWO30
Whitton's Way
CHAPTER THREE53
American Invasion
CHAPTER FOUR83
Honeymoon Express
CHAPTER FIVE113
Full Steam Farewell
PS. to Steam141
Index144

Australia Blue Mountains
Rails were the path and steam was the goliath that conquered the Blue Mountains making the rich western plains accessible. Puffing up the famous zigzags, thundering along the ridges, sending billowing clouds of smoke up against the clean mountain sky, frantically recharging air brakes on treacherous downgrades, for nearly ninety years the iron horse was supreme.
One of the greatest achievements of nineteenth century engineering was the building of Australia's loftiest and steepest mainline. The line across the Blue Mountains was the greatest construction challenge the country had yet faced and in an age when shovel, wheelbarrows, picks and sheer brute force were the tools used, the achievement is astounding.
John Whitton, an engineering genius was the man responsible for elevating the line from the coastal plain to the plateau of the mountains and then bringing the trains down again. Despite almost overwhelming odds, political, financial and topographical he succeeded.
Full Steam Across the Mountains is the story of this achievement.

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