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| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Nevada Central Mallory Hope Ferrell, 2010-06-04 This deluxe narrow gauge volume traces the amazing story of this three-foot-gauge railroad that ran through the heart of the great American Basin. Built to carry the commerce of rich silver and gold strikes, the Nevada Central struggled against tremendous odds for six decades. Often called “a line in the sand,” the 93-mile-long rail route ran between Battle Mountain, where it connected with the Central Pacific, in a southwesterly direction to Austin, Nevada. Most of the rail was 35# iron; the struggling railroad line crossed 66 timber trestles between its end points. The railroad began construction in 1879 to help open up the vast and virtually unpopulated area of the Silver State. Running through some of the most barren and remote high desert sagebrush and mountain country in the West, the Nevada Central rolled down through the years with much of its original equipment, mainly because it could never afford to purchase anything newer. The line was finally abandoned in December of 1937 and was sold for scrap the next year. The narrow gauge equipment that forms a major part of the California State Railroad Museum collection came from the Nevada Central. In 1938, the late Disney artist Ward Kimball purchased the Nevada Central’s 1881-built #2 Mogul for $400. The former Sidney Dillon was transported to the orange grove where Ward and his wife, Betty, were building a new home. The locomotive joined a former Carson & Colorado coach, and Ward’s railroad collection started to grow. For author Ferrell, a former combat fighter pilot, this is his 20th book about railroads. He has been called the best-loved narrow gauge railroad author in the United States. The Virginia native has authored hundreds of railroad articles and won dozens of awards with his exquisite models. Ferrell’s picture collections of railroads and the Old West number well over 150,000 prints. Ferrell says his research on his latest book included “mixing with cowboys, sheepmen, ranchers and thirsty miners at Austin’s (Nevada) Golden Club Saloon, and listening to their stories of the real Old West.” |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods Ables Bray Dickinson, Roy Graves, 1967 This history covers the lifetime of a small but important California railroad and ferry line which once transported thousands from San Francisco each year north across the bay into Marin County and beyond. The North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) was a common carrier narrow gauge steam railroad begun in 1874 and sold in 1902 to new owners who renamed it the North Shore Railroad (California) (NSR) and which rebuilt the southern section into a standard gauge electric railroad. The NPC operated in the northern California counties of Marin and Sonoma that carried redwood lumber, local dairy and agricultural products, express and passengers. The NPC operated almost 93 mi (150 km) of track that extended from a pier at Sausalito (which connected the line via ferry to San Francisco) and operated northwest to Duncans Mills and Cazadero (also known as Ingrams). The NPC became the North Shore Railroad (California) (NSR) on March 7, 1902. In 1907 the North Shore Railroad became part of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP). Southern portions of the line were standard gauged and electrified by the North Shore for suburban passenger service, though most of the trackage north of San Rafael remained 3 ft (914 mm) gauge until abandonment in the late 1930s. All of the NPC trackage has been abandoned either by the NPC or the NWP. Some of the original right of way can be seen at the Samuel P. Taylor State Park near Fairfax, along the shore of Tomales Bay and Keyes Estuary and passenger depots remain in San Anselmo and Duncan Mills. One NPC steam locomotive, No.12, The Sonoma, remains as a restored static exhibit in its circa 1870s appearance at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Sagebrush Statesman: Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada Loren Briggs Chan, 1973 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Compact Layout Design Iain Rice, 2015-09-21 Compact Layout Design helps modelers integrate all aspects of layout design for compact spaces into one process from benchwork to budgeting. Author Iain Rice presents the material in a practical, conversational tone and aids understanding with his beautiful hand-drawn track plans. The book provides ideas and inspiration to efficiently plan for people, trains, and space. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California: The northern roads David F. Myrick, 1962 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: American Motorcyclist , 1989-09 American Motorcyclist magazine, the official journal of the American Motorcyclist Associaton, tells the stories of the people who make motorcycling the sport that it is. It's available monthly to AMA members. Become a part of the largest, most diverse and most enthusiastic group of riders in the country by visiting our website or calling 800-AMA-JOIN. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: American Motorcyclist , 1989-09 American Motorcyclist magazine, the official journal of the American Motorcyclist Associaton, tells the stories of the people who make motorcycling the sport that it is. It's available monthly to AMA members. Become a part of the largest, most diverse and most enthusiastic group of riders in the country by visiting our website or calling 800-AMA-JOIN. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Geological Survey Professional Papers , 1949 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Ferroequinologist , 1952 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Edge Effects Robert D. Temple, 2008-11-19 Theres something fascinating about border towns. Who hasnt crossed the line into another state to buy fireworks, gamble, or even to get married? Here are border towns with names as unique as the places themselves, names that bridge the boundaries. Robert D. Temple brings you a quirky, fascinating, and wholly entertaining look at more than eighty North American border towns in Edge Effects. With an adventurers heart and a historians keen eye, Temple explores life on the edge and how these places have made their place in history. Theres big-city Mexicali and empty-quarter Idavada, idyllic Vir-Mar Beach and whiskey-soaked Mondak. Then theres prairie-bleak Alsask, mountain-high Wyocolo, and palmy Florala. And who could forget Texarkana? Along with finding these towns in the first place comes adventure in exploring them, by highway, four-wheel-drive, boots, and kayak, and in encountering memorable locals: historians, farmers, waitresses, cops, forest rangers, railroaders, and neer-do-wells. But even more, these places lead us to investigate concepts of borders, boundaries, frontiers, margins, and marginality, as well as survey lines, battle lines, picket lines, and color lines. Edge Effects brilliantly examines how frontiers enrich cultures and boundaries define them. But more importantly, it reveals how edges shape local historyand our lives. A revised edition of Edge Effects was published July 10, 2009. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Westways , 1962 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper , 1962 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Making of America Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, 1905 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: California Historian , 1966 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Nevada Trails Western Region Peter Massey, Angela Titus, Jeanne Welburn Wilson, 2008-08 Find exciting scenic drives hiking trails, camping areas, ghost towns, fishing spots and more! This unique FULL COLOR addition to the Adler TRAILS SERIES contains meticulous details for hundreds of miles of scenic backroads and four wheel drive trails in western Nevada, near the towns of Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, Tonopah, and Hawthorne. Meticulous trail details instruct readers how to safely navigate hundreds of miles of the region's best scenic backroads and four-wheel trails. See ghost towns, numerous old mines and mill workings, and old railroad grades along the more than 35 routes. Directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, remoteness, and more. Descriptions highlight the ideal places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee. Histories recount the days of the Wild West. Hundreds of COLOR PHOTOS. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide George A. Crofutt, 1880 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Gentleman's Magazine , 1894 The Gentleman's magazine section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the (Trader's) monthly intelligencer section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: History of Nevada Thompson & West, 1958 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Steam: an Enduring Legacy Joel Jensen, 2011-09-20 A stunning collection that brings an earlier era to life. Although steam engines were seldom used for everyday train transportation by 1960, they live on in the minds of those fortunate enough to have experienced them and in the many museums and steam-powered excursions throughout the country. They are especially active in the West, where master photographer Joel Jensen has, for more than twenty-five years, documented these well-restored and maintained veterans in their natural settings doing what they used to—hauling both passengers and freight and delighting rail fans of all ages. This timeless collection takes us back to the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, with captivating images evoking the past. Essays by John Gruber, the president of the Center for Railroad Photography, and Scott Lothes, the project director for the center, help to put these wonderful photographs in context. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Harper's Weekly John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Samuel Stillman Conant, Montgomery Schuyler, John Foord, Richard Harding Davis, Carl Schurz, Henry Loomis Nelson, John Kendrick Bangs, George Brinton McClellan Harvey, Norman Hapgood, 1902 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Saturday Evening Post , 1915 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: USDA Report on Water and Related Land Resources: Central Lahontan Basin, Walker River Subbasin, Nevada-California United States. USDA Nevada River Basin Survey Staff, 1969 The objective of the Walker River Subbasin Report is to contribute to comprehensive planning for the coordinated and orderly development, management, and use of water and related land resources of the subbasin. It is anticipated that the information presented in this report will: (1) identify the present and potential land and water problems and opportunities for solving them; (2) provide a basis for more effective coordination of U.S. Department of Agriculture resource programs with the related activities of each State and with other Federal agencies; (3) provide a sound basis for the development of water and related land resources by means of Public Law 566 projects for other programs; (4) indicate opportunities for development of water resources and the rehabilitation of depleted watersheds and rangelands of the national forest and public domain, as part of the multiple use programs for these Federal lands. This subbasin report includes: (1) an inventory of the natural resources; (2) an analysis of economic development; (3) a definition of the causes and extent of the resource problems; (4) an indication of present and future needs for resource development; (5) a short discussion of existing resource projects and programs; (6) a description of the resource development potential; (7) an indication of the opportunities for development under U.S. Department of Agriculture programs; and (8) suggested future programs and coordination needs among all groups and agencies. The natural resource inventory was supplemented by a detailed reconnaissance soil survey covering the subbasin. The results of the survey produced a broad but comprehensive summation of the subbasin's most basic resource, along with an interpretative tabulation of the hazards, limitations, and potentials for its use--Page 1. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The United States with an Excursion Into Mexico Karl Baedeker, 1893 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The United States, with an Excursion Into Mexico Karl Baedeker (Firm), James Fullarton Muirhead, 1893 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Highways and Byways of California Clifton Johnson, 1908 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Breeder's Gazette , 1908 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: History of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, California ... Rolin C. Watkins, 1925 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: History of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties, California Rolin G. Watkins, 1925 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: American Narrow Gauge Railroads George W. Hilton, 1994 This is a comprehensive, illustrated account of the growth and decline of American narrow gauge railroading. It documents a long-gone era, bringing to life ancient steam locomotives, railroads and rolling stock that have mostly disappeared without trace. The basic facts and information on the subject are heavily illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps, presented in an encyclopedia format. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Nevada, 1881 Myron Angel, David F. Myrick, 1958 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Making of America Robert Marion La Follette, 1907 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Pacific Tourist Frederick E. Shearer, 1886 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Humboldt River Chronology: Chronology Gary A. Horton, 2000 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Transactions American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1900 Some vols., 1920-1949, contain collections of papers according to subject. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Nevada , 1970 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Geological Survey Professional Paper Geological Survey (U.S.), 1962 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Rocky Trails of the Past Charles Labbe, 1960 Guide to old mining towns, mostly now deserted, in Nevada. With histories and ill. |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Sagebrush Corner William Newell Davis, 1974 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: Model Railroader , 1961 |
| nevada central sagebrush narrow gauge: The Modern Tramway , 1964 |
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