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Southern Pacific's Slim Princess
Author: Andrew Brandon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2022-10-10
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467108782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For 60 years, the Southern Pacific's Slim Princess served as the lifeline to remote areas of western Nevada and eastern California. In 1880, the financiers of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad organized the Carson & Colorado Railroad to build a narrow-gauge line from the Carson River to the Colorado River, but that dream was never fully realized. In 1900, the Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the 300-mile line, envisioning it as a shortcut from Nevada to Southern California. The northern half of the line was converted to standard gauge in 1905. The section from Mina, Nevada, to Keeler, California, remained an isolated and celebrated part of the Southern Pacific until it succumbed to the scrapper's torch in 1960. Author Andrew Brandon has over 30 years of extensive study in railroad history and involvement with noteworthy projects in the railroad preservation community. Since 2001, he has been involved with the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in Nevada City, where he currently serves as the curator. Brandon also serves on board of directors for the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Historical Society and the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway. In 2009, he helped establish PacificNG.org--a website dedicated to researching narrow-gauge railroads around the Pacific Rim.
Southern Pacific's Slim Princess in the Sunset, 1940-1960
The Slim Princess. The Story of the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge. (Fourth Edition.) [With Illustrations.].
The Slim Princess
The Slim Princess Revisited at Sundown
Author: Richard Appel
Publisher:
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781411645813
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Slim Princess Revisited at Sundown (Carson & Colorado Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Railroad) is a supplement companion publication to George Turner's Slim Rails Through The Sands, which was published in the 1960's. The book contains 51 individual, hand drawn maps for driving/hiking the railroad from Keeler, California to Mound House, Nevada.
The Slim Princess 1880 Locomotive Roster 1960
Author: Richard Appel
Publisher:
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781411645790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1880-1960 Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Steam and Diesel Roster The Slim Princess locomotive roster contains all known narrow gauge motive power when operated over the 300 miles of original Carson & Colorado tracks in the period from 1880 to 1900 when Southern Pacific purchased the C&C.
Southern Pacific in California
Author: Kerry Sullivan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738582078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Southern Pacific Railroad is California's railroad. As the Central Pacific, it bored and blasted its way east from Sacramento, across the towering High Sierra, meeting with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and profoundly changing the growing United States. By the early 20th century, the Southern Pacific was a rail colossus, stretching from San Francisco Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the Southern Pacific remained essentially Californian. Its rail lines gave muscle to the lovely California coast, the fertile San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys, and the timber industry of the north coast. Yet for all its might and majesty, for many Californians the Southern Pacific was a smaller, more intimate part of the fabric of their daily lives.
The Slim Princess Supplement Map Guide
Author: Richard Appel
Publisher:
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781411645806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering George Turner's Carson & Colorado and Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Railroad map collection. Filled with unpublished manuscripts along with Mr. Turner's personal station maps drawn while researching his Slim Rails Through the Sands book in the 1960's.
Guide to Narrow Gauge Modeling
Author: Tony Koester
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Published:
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1627001514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an entry point for any modeler interested in building a narrow gauge layout. Narrow gauge railroads remain popular among railfans and modelers due to the spectacular mountain scenery in which many operated. Although narrow gauge layouts have a passionate niche following, there are very few books on this subject. • The book is an overview of prototype narrow gauge railroading as well as available models. • This is a one-stop book for introducing modelers to the subject of narrow gauge railroading. • It explains why and where narrow gauge railroads were built, how they operated, what their equipment was like, and why they were abandoned.
