Author: Ed Austin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143964490X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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To those with an interest in railroad history in the United States, mention of the words "narrow gauge" may bring to mind the extensive three-foot-gauge railroads of Colorado and Utah or perhaps the famous two-foot-gauge lines in Maine. However, few would think first of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Nonetheless, between 1877 and 1893, an extensive narrow-gauge railroad developed in Oregon" one that had aspirations of crossing the Cascade Mountains and connecting with the Central Pacific Railroad, thus giving Oregon its first access to the transcontinental railroad system. It is this railroad system, from its inception in 1877 to the present day, that Ed Austin explores herein.
Author: Edward Gardner Jones
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Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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History and biography of the Pacific Northwest; local history for towns in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia.
Author: D. C. Jesse Burkhardt
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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A reflection of the effects of highways--and their hugely subsidized trucks--upon railroads, and of the incompetence of the Southern Pacific. The trucks took much rail freight on the coast, the SP--partly through government rules & inertia--failed to meet the competition; many lines were closed, most of the rest were sold to small, hungry, competent firms. This is the story. It is well told in a style familiar to rail fans: lists of stations, engine rosters, control blocks. Abundant photos, a few in color. Current through the visit of the X2000 in mid-1993. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Edwin D. Culp
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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"Most of us have felt the fascination of seeing a steam locomotive with smoke drifting back over the line of cars it pulled, as the whole train wound through tall Western mountains. Whether we have actually experienced it or not, and many have, we know such a thing existed and that it is now part of a past that we can't touch again. But in Stations West, Edwin Culp comes close. With four hundred eighty photographs, carefully collected over a period of more than twenty years, he presents an exciting graphic history of Oregon railways from their beginnings to the present. Following the tracks as they were laid, from the Willamette Valley to the Oregon desert, he illustrates, in all its many facets, a heritage which has passed"--
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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"Comprising all the decisions of the Supreme Courts of California, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, District Courts of Appeal and Appellate Department of the Superior Court of California and Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma." (varies)
Author: Henry Jacob Winser
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Category : Northwestern States
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Author: Oregon Historical Society
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Author: Oregon Historical Society
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: Henry Jacob Winser
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385349540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
