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Silver San Juan The Rio Grande Southern by Mallory Hope Ferrell Hard Cover
Silver San Juan The Rio Grande Southern by Mallory Hope Ferrell Signed
Damaged Page 15/16 Square has been cut out and taped back in. SEE PHOTOS
Damaged Dust Jacket, Only front cover and Binding of the dust jacket are included.
Back cover is split at the top of the binding and the binding edge is a little loose
Copyright 1973
1st Edition
643 Pages
Train Schedule
LIST OF MAPS
LIST OF FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION1
1 PATHFINDER OF THE SAN JUANS5
2 SILVER SAN JUAN SCENIC LINE47
3 A BRIEF BONANZA85
4 RIDING THE RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN137
5 THE STOCK RUSH202
6 SNOW, THE ANNUAL BATTLE263
7 THE GALLOPING GOOSE ERA321
8 THE OPHIR LOOP358
9 PRIVATE RAILS TO THE HIGH COUNTRY 387
10 PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY419
11 TEN-WHEELER IN GREASEPAINT487
12 THE FANS COME TO RIDE497
13 TWILIGHT ON THE NARROW GAUGE527
14 END OF THE LINE563
15 THE MEARS'PASSES575
16 SAN JUAN ROSTER583
17 PLANS622
Bibliography
Index
For sixty years the trains of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad carried the economy of the San Juans. In winter, the tracks were piled high with snow; Spring brought rains and flooding. Summer was an operating man's joy, and the autumn stock season saw long double and triple-headed trains struggling out of Placerville and over Dallas Divide.
The Rio Grande Southern had its own narrow gauge feeder lines, too. From the time construction began, locally mined coal, and lumber felled in the region, provided the means for keeping the company's ledgers in the black. In time, privately constructed three-foot gauge railroads were built to the coal mines and into the high timber and while the natural resources held out, the Rio Grande Southern carried these products to market in swaying gondolas, flats and high cars, pulled by diamond-stacked locomotives.
In its later years, the road fought off scrappers and ended regular steam passenger train service with an ingenious combination of Pierce-Arrow parts and master mechanic's imagination known affectionately as a "Galloping Goose."
Here then is the story of the most spectacular bit of mountain railroading ever conceived by man. From the days when light rails were spiked down with double-headed spikes, and diamond-stacked consolidations boosted livestock and ore over the pass on a bright autumn afternoon-to the paralyzing blizzards that struck with regularity- this is the Silver San Juan.
A spectacular book about a spectacular railroad. With 500 photographs, seven maps and seven full color plates, painted especially for this book by Howard Fogg, Richard Ward, Mike Pearsall and Philip Ronfor. This book belongs in the library of every rail fan and western history buff.
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