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First printed in 1970, Elmer Sulzer's magisterial study of the abandoned railroads of Indiana quickly proved itself invaluable to the serious student of Railroading. Packed with hundreds of photos, maps, and charts and four-color paintings by Norman C. Miller, Jr., Ghost Railroads of Indiana provides much more than the simple enumeration of track closings.
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There are many surprises among the 53 black-and-white photographs in Stanley Greenberg's hymn to the hum of the city that never sleeps. There is a revealing shot of the roof structure above the curved vault of Grand Central Station's night-sky ceiling that shows where those light bulbs are screwed in to form the delicate constellations commuters see every day. The anchorages of several city bridges--the chambers where the powerful cables that hold up the roadways are fastened down--are exposed to view, peeling paint, trash, and all. There is a gleaming shot of a working Con Edison turbine and a cluttered view of a derelict power station at Floyd Bennett Field, the city's first municipally owned commercial airport.
The pictures possess a certain sameness after the first 20 or so, but New York has been immortalized by many of history's very best photographers, so Greenberg has a tough act to follow. He has good company as he searches for a new angle, however, including Laura Rosen, whose Manhattan Shores is an equally quirky but richly satisfying and illuminating trek around the edges of the island, and Horst Hamann, whose New York Vertical has become an instant classic. Anyone who likes the idea of exploring the city's underpinnings instead of the subways, piers, or buildings themselves will love Invisible New York, which also contains an index in which Greenberg imparts fascinating information about each site. --Peggy Moorman
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Island Timber Author: Shirley Sherwood Publisher: Sono Nis Pr; ; (January 2000)
This 8 1/2 x 11 softcover charts the history of one of the largest logging concerns on coastal British Columbia-the Comox Logging Company-from the turn of the century to the devastating Great Fire of 1938. With 450 employees, six huge steam-powered skidders, a dozen locomotives, hundreds of miles of track, and sole access to the Douglas fir forests between Courtenay and Campbell River, Comox Logging boomed and towed billions of board feet of timber from Vancouver Island to Fraser Mills at New Westminster-then the largest sawmill in the British Empire. Island Timber is also the first social and community history of a logging company in British Columbia. It highlights loggers from Britain, Scandinavia and elswhere, who found careers and homes on Vancouver Island, and it centers on the Comox Homeguard-the company elite famous for their farming and family connections in the Comox Valley. Mackie interviewed 150 people directly involved in the early logging industry and the book is packed with stories and dozens of stunning black and white photographs and maps in its 309 pages that have never before appeared in print.
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Author Dennis Thompson spent more than 10 years painstakingly researching the fascinating and colorful early logging operations in Washington State's Skagit county. The result, 308 pages with 411 photographs and dozens of drawings, is an incredible portrayal of an important early industry in a rugged and untamed land. Through a combination of personal experience, countless interviews, and scores of hours pouring over historical archives, Dennis presents a complete and very interesting account and a well-chronicled period of our history.
From the small operations that probably would have faded from memory forever to the area giants such as English Logging Company and Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, you'll get complete details: How, why, where and when they started, what kind of equipment they used, what areas they worked, and ultimately what became of them. Backing up the concise, interesting, and often amusing text are some outstanding photographs that complete the story. From life in a logging camp to the perils of a locomotive wreck, you'll see it all.
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In the early days of lumbering, the railroads went where the timber was--right up to the spar tree at the head of cutting operations--and locomotives performed many of the chores formerly handled by horses and oxen. To reach the timber, railroads had to climb nearly insurmountable grades (some in excess of 70%), cross nearly impossible ravines on improvised timber trestles hundreds of feet high, yet be so flexibly constructed that trackage could be shifted constantly to follow the timber. Operations of such lines required special equipment, many of which were improvised right at the camps, plus a special breed of men. They came out of the deep woods of the Northwest, of Michigan, of Wisconsin, and even the Scandinavian countries, to write a thrilling chapter in the history of the iron horse.
The panorama of railroad logging was made up of many scenes peculiarly its own. A little tank engine hustling the crew car up the mountain in the early dawn. Brakies hunched against the rain as they rode the sets of empty disconnects that snaked along behind a churning Shay. Cars going up and down the steep side of a mountain on a cable that creaked and sang as it felt the tug of the distant donkey. Spindly trestles over roaring trout streams, soft track, and runaways with their inevitable, disastrous aftermaths. Railroads in the Woods is the complete, documented, authoritative account of railroad logging in all of its ramifications.
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