Lines West : A Pictorial History of the Great Northern Railway Operations and Motive Power from 1887 to 1967
by Wood, Charles R
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0517141302
- ISBN 13
- 9780517141304
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USA: Bonanza Books, 1967. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 Pages with Black/White Photos. The long steel ribbon wound West over plain, desert and mountain into the timbered fastness of the Washington wilderness, the building of it was a saga of strong men battling sand, snow and the high mountain passes. Some were broken by heat and cold, some blown to eternity by primitive equipment, some buried under the wreckage of flimsy bridges. And all of it becomes a story of pioneers in a power struggle, driven to success by the indomitable spirit of the Empire Builder-James J. Hill. GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS DRAMATIZE the Great Northern story from the days when steam was king, hauling Jim Hill's trains west from Minnesota's lakes to become the country's most northern "empire building" railroad ... a line plagued by trouble until electrification came and the 8-mile Cascade Tunnel was completed in 1929. With the deftness of a writer who knows his subject, author Wood presents a vivid account of this historic struggle that gives full meaning to the action and detail pictures of Philip Hastings, Fred Jukes, Jim Frederickson, Lee Pickett, Walt Mendenhall, Claude Witt, Walter Thayer, Stuart Hertz, W. R. McGee, Phil Kohl, Casey Adams, Howard Durfy and other famous railroad photographers. This is the book historians and friends of railroads knew would sometime come-the Great Northern classic, for every railroader, active or armchair.
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- Bookseller
- Train World Pty Ltd (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- UB-18474
- Title
- Lines West : A Pictorial History of the Great Northern Railway Operations and Motive Power from 1887 to 1967
- Author
- Wood, Charles R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0517141302
- ISBN 13
- 9780517141304
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- USED-North America
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- USED-North America;
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- 0 g
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Train World commenced business at 615 Hawthorn road East Brighton in 1973. From a cabinet in a haberdashery store, Train World grew to take over half the shop in 1974 to take over the entire store and by 1977 it had taken over the shop and the rear residence. In 1981 the shop moved across the road to 624 Hawthorn Road East Brighton. Here too the shop grew and grew. So that by 1995 it had taken over the shop, the storage room area, the staff area, the garage, the rear warehouse and finally filling the entire building. Finally on 1st July 2012 Train world moved again to 290 Bay Street Brighton - Since the 1980s the focus of Train World has been trains and model trains, nothing but trains and everything to do with trains. Making it the largest pure train shop in Australia. Train World is a store of some 2,000 square feet. Open seven (7) days a week, that specialise not only in train models but new and used books and magazines of British, American and Australian titles. We usually have 7,000-8,000 titles in stock at any time. Plus we are the Australasian/Pacific Rim distributor for Irwell Press. We have a large holding of current and past new Irwell Press Books. On our home web site Irwell Press and our new / secondhand / used books are listed seperately. and can also be searched by clicking on the search link. We are displaying the covers and details for all our new Australian books and Irwell Press books on library thing. try this link http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TrainWorldand then click on TrainWorld has a suggested style for viewing this library (use it)
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.