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High Iron A Book of Trains Lucius Beebe Dust Jacket
High Iron A Book of Trains Lucius Beebe
Hard cover with DUST JACKET (HAS some damage) Address label on front page (crossed out)
Copyright 1938 Bonanza Books
226 pages. Indexed. Copyright 1938.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION3
I "0 PIONEERS"13
2 SPEED 55
3 POWER.89
4 DELUXE163
CAR HERALDS, DEVICES AND INSIGNIA OF THE PRINCIPAL RAILROADS OF NORTH AMERICA.211
A GLOSSARY OF RAILROAD TERMS, SLANG AND USAGE 219
BIBLIOGRAPHY.226
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Chief in the Cajon Pass frontispiece
Speed on the Boston and Albany title-page
Mixed Train along the Erie v
Hotshot into the Main vii
Fuel for the Forty-Niner ix
Smokebox, D. & R.G.W. 4-8-4 1
Westward Course of Empire..11
Pride of the Central, 1870 16
Around Cape Horn 21
The High Sierras, 1868 22
In the Cisco Yards, 1867 22
The Yesterday of Bret Harte 23
The Union's 119, Promontory Protagonist .23
Central Pacific Construction in the Sierras 24
Above the American River 25
Heading Out of Cisco 25
The U.P. Trail 26
Steel across the Humboldt 26
Leland Stanford's Train at Monument Rock27
The Railroad Moves East 28
Dodge's Telegram of May 10, 186928
Rendezvous with Destiny 29
After the Last Tie 29
Texas and Pacific Ten-wheeler with Water Tank 30
The Last Rail30
San Francisco's Last-Spike Parade 31
The Improved Burdett Organ 32
Back Head, 186933
Huntington Hopkins & Co., Sacramento 33
Union Pacific Construction Train 34
Grandfather Braves the High Sierras 35
Super-Power in the Sixties 35
Track Inspection, 1869 36
Track Inspection, Twentieth Century 36
Along the Old New Haven 37
Snow above Reno 42
Roundhouse Pastoral, Sacramento, 1872 47
Highball 51
Green for the Super Chief 53
Nocturne in the Erie Yards 58
Pennsy Poster, 1905 64
The Empire State at Poughkeepsie 65
Erie Pastoral 66
The Chief Lifts to the Hills 67
The 400 68
The Southern Pacific Lark 69
The Mercury at Speed 69
Wheeling the Reading's Varnish 70
Super-Pocono on the Lackawanna 71
The Empire Builder Pauses at Minot 71
Speed along the U.P. Trail 72
The Southwestern Limited Hits the Curves 73
The Grand Canyon Limited Heads for Barstow 74
The Pennsylvania's New Yorker 75
The Now Discontinued Apache on the Espee . . . . . . . 75
Modernity along the Alton 76
The Green Diamond 76
The New England States Limited 77
Streamlined Super-Power of the New Haven . . . . . . . 78
The Milwaukee's Day Express 79
Down East Diesel Power 79
Double-header out of San Bernardino 80
The Texas Rocket at Fort Worth 81
Speed at Burlingame, 1884 81
The Rainbow West of Paoli 85
Outside Motion 87
Forty-niner 92
Heavy Power on the Texas and Pacific . . . . . . . . 97
"Up from the South at Break of Day" 99
The Glory of the Narrow Gage 100
Pennsy Santa Fe-Type in Action101
Fort Worth and Denver City No. 2-22 101
Southern Pacific Excursion 102
Texas-type on the T. & P 102
The Kennebec Limited 103
The Union Pacific's No. 9000 104
Texas Pacific Mixed Freight 105
Main Line Lyric 106
The Silk Express 107
Articulated Power on the Central . . . . . . . . . 107
Maiden Run of a Berkshire 108
Western Pacific Hotshot ..109
The Overland Nears Home 110
Sunset and the Frisco's Meteor 110
Canadian Pacific Pool Train 111
Back Head by Baldwin ..112
Classification Yards and Retarders ..113
Wheeling and Lake Erie Varnish 114
Versatile Wabash Power 115
The Cheyenne Mail 116
American Type on the Boston and Maine . . . . . . . . 116
Storming down the Panhandle 117
Headed for the Royal Gorge 122
Water at Abilene 129
In the San Bernardinos 133
Highballing the Mail on the B. & O. 134
Redball out of Fort Worth 134
The Pony Express 135
In British Columbia 136
Up Sherman Hill 136
Super-Power in the Colorado Rockies .137
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Drag 138
Colorado and Southern Fast Freight ..138
The Gulf Coast Limited 139
The Archetypal 4-4-0 140
On the Outside Iron 141
"In Yellow Fields of Asphodel" 142
The Corn King Rolling Home 142
The Vaudreuil Mail 143
The Challenger, First Section 144
Double-heading out of Canton 145
Test Run on the C. & O. 146
Green and Gold of the Southern.147
Into the Alexandria Yards 147
Cab-first Espee Mallet 148
Old Timer on the Santa Fe 148
The Norfolk and Western Rolls Its Freight . . . . . . . 149
Double-shotted for Leadville 150
Southern Pacific Drag 150
The Nickel Plate Limited 151
On the Santa Fe Trail 152
Mobile and Ohio Diesel Unit at St. Louis 152
Pulse of the Iron 154
Ready to Go 157
The Overland Limited 159
Nickel Plate Highliner 161
Smokebox by Henry Dreyfuss 165
Shot Welded 168
Mountain Division 171
Aboard the Super Chief 172
Chic in '69 173
Drawing-Room Car de Luxe 173
The Frisco's Bluebonnet 174
The Reading's Crusader 175
Texas and New Orleans Streamliner 175
Back to Old Virginny 176
Decorum in Transit 177
Plovers' Eggs and Claret 177
Pride of the Monon 178
The South Texas Sunshine 179
De Luxe on the Texas and Pacific 179
The Golden State Limited 18o
Highliner on the Katy 181
Fashionable Yard Goat 181
Timber-line Varnish 182
Pride of the Western Pacific 183
"The Most Beautiful Train in the World". . . . . . . 184
The Ghost Train of the Nineties 185
Pride of the New York and New England . . . . . . . . 186
The Best People Dined Here 187
Hassocks and Plush 187
Down East Varnish 190
The Romantic Forty-niner 191
The Century As Was 191
"The Tall Far-Trafficking Shapes" .192
The Cycle of the Century 193
Spic and Span: the Wabash Varnish .194
Luxury Hotel on Wheels ....195
New Haven Heavy Pacific 196
The City of Denver 197
Stylish and Gleaming: the St. Louis Zipper 197
Favored of Cabots and Saltonstalls 198
After the Comstock Lode 198
In the Era of the Gibson Girl 199
Miracle of Modernity.200
Crossing the Plains in Style 200
The City of Mexico 201
The Empire Builder, 1910 202
The First Super Chief 203
Here Was Elegance 203
He Bends the Iron 205
Envoi 207
Fastest Greyhound: the Denver Zephyr 209
In Deepest Texas 217
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
"High Iron" is a record in prose and pictures of some of the more arresting aspects of the most heroic of American sagas, the legend of railroading. It is not a history of railroads nor is it a handbook of the evolution of trains and locomotives. It concerns itself with the magnificence, the romance and the grandeur of steam and steel and speed from the time of the first mile a minute run by the Antelope in 1848 to the ultimate luxury of private suites aboard the Super Chief whose working schedule calls for clipping off the New Mexico miles at a hundred and ten to the hour. Its photographs, perhaps the finest collection of railroad shots ever gathered together in popular form, embrace trains and engines from the Central Pacific eight wheelers which pushed the railhead from Sacramento up into the lofty Sierras to the rugged symmetry of the Pennsy's celebrated Kos and the Southern Pacific's glamorous Daylight. Additional features of the book are an extensive glossary of railroad terms and slang and a useful guide for the identification of railroad car heralds and insignia.
For railroad aficionados whose hearts may lie in the high passes of the Cajon and Glorieta or in the lush meadows of New England with its single tracks passing under covered bridges it is a breathless panorama of the saga of American railroads. Many of its photographs, taken by the author, will appeal to the fastidious collector of locomotive pictures (than whom there is none more exacting) as among the most dramatic action pictures in their field. "High Iron" is a compelling chronicle of the beauty of gleaming valve motion and the thunder of eighty-inch drivers that will appeal to every American who has ever watched the Overland climb the Nevada horizon or heard the urgent Century whistle for a midnight crossing in upper New York.
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