Author: BEEBE, LUCIUS; CLEGG, CHARLES
Title: Steamcars to the Comstock: The Virginia and Truckee Railroad, the Carson and Colorado Railroad, Their Story in Picture and Prose (Third Edition)
Description: Berkeley, California: Howell-North Press, 1960. Hardcover. Stated 3rd Edition, June 1960. A history of two railroads that served Western Nevada and the mines of east-central California in the late 1800s. The Virginia and Truckee Railroad rails connected Reno, Carson City, and the Comstock Lode city of Virginia City. The narrow gauge Carson & Colorado Railroad connected Carson City and the Cerro Gordo Mines near Keeler, California. With over 120 black & white illustrations, two color paintings by Howard Fogg, drawings and a full-page route map of each of the two railroads. --- In pictorial cloth-covered boards with blue monochrome photos of steam locomotives to both front and back panels. Dust jacket with a color Fogg painting of a V & T train underway. --- With a strip of light soiling (which could be adhesive residue of some sort) to lower edge of front cover, otherwise a clean, unmarked, sturdy copy. Unclipped jacket with minor rubbing, else bright and intact; protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 108 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation