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Switzerland Trail of America, The By Forest Crossen # Signed Hard Cover
The Switzerland Trail of America By Forest Crossen
Limited edition #2710/4,000 Signed
Copyright 1962.
Hard Cover
417 pages Indexed
Includes two maps in the back pocket.
BOTH THE FRONT and back shows an area where the binding show. (see photos)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part IPAGE
Chapter IThe Gold And Silver Hills 1
Chapter IiRoads To The Mines7
Chapter IiiA Railroad To The Mountains 13
Chapter IvThe Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific 27
Part II
Chapter IThe Colorado & Northwestern 61
Chapter IlThe Bright Early Years85
Chapter IiiThe Face Of Trouble 127
Chapter IvEldora Extension And Third Rail 145
Chapter VThe Denver, Boulder & Western 171
Chapter ViStanley Steamers And The Big Snow 203
Chapter ViiThe Tungsten Boom And World War I 225
Chapter ViiiThe End Of The Trail 249
Chapter IxThe Lure Of The Trail 277
Chapter XStations 303
Chapter XiStories Of The Trail337
Chapter XiiLocomotives, Rolling Stock, And Equipment 369
Chapter XiiiThe Return Of No. 30 395
Index 409
An illustrated history of the romantic narrow gauge lines running west from Boulder Colorado: Greeley Salt Lake & Pacific and the Colorado & Northwestern, later the Denver Boulder & Western.
The Switzerland Trail of America! The flowing beauty of the name fascinated me when first I heard it long ago. When I saw the abandoned grade curving along a mountainside, my imagination conjured up pictures of ghost trains so real I could almost hear the whistles. The stories of old railroaders and people who rode the trains brought to me the excitement and color of the little lines running west from Boulder into the Rockies. Even as I read old books and papers, the dry bones of history came alive. All those things pushed me, unconsciously, toward the day when I began this book.
Now telling the story of even a little railroad like the Switzerland Trail of America is a big undertaking. I could never have completed it had there not been the help of many wonderful, unselfish people. They put their hearts into it. Whatever I have put down I owe largely to them.
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