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When Steam Was King by Gerald French Sierra Ry Pickering West Side Lumber Co HC
When Steam Was King by Gerald French
Sierra Railway
Pickering Lumber Company
West Side Lumber Company
Hard Cover
241 pages
Copyright 2006?
CONTENTS
1 Sierra Railway
57 Pickering Lumber Company
64 Empire City Railroad
Stanislaus Railway
149 West Side Lumber Company Railroad Parks
206 California State Railroad Museum
209 Railtown 1897
214 Roaring Camp & Big Trees
217 Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad
220 Midwest Central RR
221 Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad
223 Cass Scenic Railroad
Authors Favorite Railroads
228 Sierra Railroad Golden
Sunset Dinner train
Skunk Train
Sacramento RiverTrain
230 Grand Canyon Railway
233 The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
238 Sierra Madre Express
241 Bibliography
ON THE BACK COVER
About the Author
After photographing the construction of Beardsley Dam in 1955, Gerald French returned to shoot the finished project in 1958 for the Stockton Record newspaper.
Just as he got his camera set up, there suddenly appeared a belching steam engine pulling eleven log cars across the dam. From that moment on, French knew he was forever hooked on photographing all aspects of this logging railroad.
He continued shooting at the railroads nearby Beardsley Camp when he encountered George Colt the superintendent of the bridge crew. Colt warned that the camp was "off limits" to railroad photographers. Pleading for permission to continue his picture taking, French received his firm instructions from Colt, "Show up at Pickering's Hiring Hall in Standard on Wednesday at 8 a.m., I'll hire you on as a bridge carpenter!"
French arrived at the hall amid a huge crowd of lumber jacks looking for work. True to his word, Colt called out, "French!" The photographer reminisces, "If the looks from the lumber jacks could kill, I'd have been six feet under."
Thanks to Colt, French became a member of Pickering's bridge crew documenting the logging railroad through the lens of his 4x5 Speed Graphic during the summer of 1958.
Gerald French worked as a professional photographer in San Francisco and now lives in Texas. His many photographs have appeared in numerous international publications including National Geographic guidebooks, Time, Life, and Newsweek. Other titles include, Sights and Scenes of San Francisco and Sonoma.
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