Author: PYFROM, Priscilla Coe
Title: The Bridges Stand Tall: The Life and Times of Resident Engineer C.S. Coe and His Family on the Florida Keys and in Key West During the Construction of the Key West Extension
Description: Marathon, FL, Pigeon Key Foundation, Inc, 1998. Paperback. Edited by Dan Gallagher. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. viii, 112pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faintest wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine; scribbled out ownership name on inside front wrapper. Tight and nice first edition of this personal account of an extraordinary engineering feat that extended a railway 128 miles beyond the end of the Florida Keys, penned by the daughter (1896-2002) of Clarence Stanley Coe (1865-1939), the railroad civil engineer and bridge builder who accomplished this marvel. She signs the title page boldly in full in black ballpoint. A title rarely found signed. .

Keywords: Engineering & Technology Railroad


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