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Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope Ferrell Steam trains and Steamboats w/DJ
Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope Ferrell
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
256 pages
Copyright 2011
CONTENTS
Dedication 5
Acknowledgements 6
Foreword:Tahoe ... Gem of the Sierra8
Introduction: Manifest Destiny10
Chapter 1:The Argonauts13
Chapter 2:Logging The Tahoe Basin 19
Chapter 3:Bliss, Yerington & Company 27
Chapter 4:Narrow Gauge To The Summit33
Chapter 5:Narrow Rails, Steamboat Trails & Flumes47
Chapter 6:Lake Valley Railroad73
Chapter 7:Lake Tahoe Narrow Gauge Glory Days85
Chapter 8:Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation115
Chapter 9:The Other Tahoe Loggers 171
Chapter 10: Steamboats On The Lake 197
Chapter 11: Restorations and Dispositions 225
Tahoe, Trout Creek & Pacific 243
Epilogue 244
Contributors 245
Rosters 246
Bibliography252
Index254
Maps: Lake Tahoe Railroads 11
Lake Tahoe N.G. (C&TL&F)37
Lake Valley R.R. (C&TL&F) 77
Lake Tahoe Ry & Transportation 117
Tahoe City Trackage 118
Truckee Trackage 119
Crystal Bay R.R. (SNW&L)174
Clinton R.R. / Donner & Tahoe R.R. 187
Plans: S.S. Tahoe 213
Lake Tahoe N.G. Flat Car244
LTRy&T No. 1, 2-6-0 246
LTRy&T No. 13, 2-8-0 248
No area of the American West saw such a diverse accumulation of railroads as the
Tahoe and Truckee basins of the Sierra Nevada. Lake Tahoe itself is nestled amid the towering pine-covered mountains along the California and Nevada state lines. Its waters provided transportation for not only the timber, but for passengers, mail and freight aboard the many steamboats that plied its blue waters.
In this beautiful setting, logging railroads and steamboats of the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company brought the huge logs to lake-shore sawmills. The Lake Tahoe Narrow Gauge Railroad and its connecting Clear Creek Flume took the timbers, lumber and cordwood up and over the divide for the Comstock Bonanza towns. By the late 1890s, most of the virgin stands had been cut. In the early 1900s, tourists began to flock to Lake Tahoe. They rode on a new narrow gauge, the Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Company. Eventually the Southern Pacific took over the property and converted it to standard gauge. The SP branch was abandoned in 1941.
This is the story of the many logging railroads that operated in and near the Tahoe basin, with hundreds of rare photographs, maps, plans and illustrations. The author, a distinguished historian of narrow-gauge railroading and the West, has with this book added further luster to a long record of fine publications.
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