Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope Ferrell Steam trains and Steamboats w/DJ for Sale

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Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope Ferrell Steam trains and Steamboats w/DJ:
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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope Ferrell Steam trains and Steamboats w/DJ Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope FerrellHard Cover with Dust Jacket256 pagesCopyright 2011
CONTENTSDedication 5Acknowledgements 6Foreword:Tahoe ... Gem of the Sierra8Introduction: Manifest Destiny10Chapter 1:The Argonauts13Chapter 2:Logging The Tahoe Basin 19Chapter 3:Bliss, Yerington & Company 27Chapter 4:Narrow Gauge To The Summit33Chapter 5:Narrow Rails, Steamboat Trails & Flumes47Chapter 6:Lake Valley Railroad73Chapter 7:Lake Tahoe Narrow Gauge Glory Days85Chapter 8:Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation115Chapter 9:The Other Tahoe Loggers 171Chapter 10: Steamboats On The Lake 197Chapter 11: Restorations and Dispositions 225Tahoe, Trout Creek & Pacific 243Epilogue 244Contributors 245Rosters 246Bibliography252Index254Maps: Lake Tahoe Railroads 11Lake Tahoe N.G. (C&TL&F)37Lake Valley R.R. (C&TL&F) 77Lake Tahoe Ry & Transportation 117Tahoe City Trackage 118Truckee Trackage 119Crystal Bay R.R. (SNW&L)174Clinton R.R. / Donner & Tahoe R.R. 187Plans: S.S. Tahoe 213Lake Tahoe N.G. Flat Car244LTRy&T No. 1, 2-6-0 246LTRy&T No. 13, 2-8-0 248
No area of the American West saw such a diverse accumulation of railroads as theTahoe 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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