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Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell
Hard Cover w/dust jacket (has a plstic civering)
272 Pages
Copyright 1982
Train Time
Dedication 5
Acknowledgments 6
Foreword 9
Preface: Desert Commotions 17
Chapter 1: The Slim Princess 19
Chapter 2: Bonanza In The Desert59
Chapter 3: Mixed Train From Mina 73
Chapter 4: Narrow Gauge To Nowhere 97
Chapter 5: Twilight On The Narrow Gauge 191
Chapter 6: Like The Lost Tribe Rosters203
Roster207
Index266
Bibliography271
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge At A Glance265
Inside dust jacket
In the lexicon of the Old West, few names conjure-up more dreams of glory than that of the Carson & Colorado Railroad. Henry Yerington and the moneybags of the Bank of California built it; Lucius Beebe enshrined it; Carl Fallberg satirized it; while time and the Washoe winds have all but erased its path.
It has been called, and fittingly so, the "Slim Princess" owing in part to the fact that her rails were spaced a mere three feet apart. It was also said to have been built "300 miles too long or 300 years too soon." But nevertheless, it survived in part even the greatest of the Nevada short lines . . . the famous and fabulously rich Virginia & Truckee. It was in fact, the V&T and her wealth that financed the Carson & Colorado, not only providing its northern connection at Mound House, Nevada, now only a memory; but its visionary plan of connecting the Carson River with the distant Colorado River and all the silver and gold towns that would spring-up between. Originated, planned, pushed, financed and built by the Virginia & Truckee Railway in the early 1880's, the Carson & Colorado was all too soon a waif, unwanted and then finally unloaded on the unsuspecting but all powerful Southern Pacific . . . just two months before news of the Tonopah gold boom resounded across the great basin and overshadowed the queen of the Comstock herself, Virginia City.
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