Author: KRIEG, ALLAN Title: Last of the 3 Foot Loggers
Description: San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1977. Ninth Printing. B/W and maps; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4; 96 pages; Hard cover is green faux leather with bold lettering on the spine. Light rubbing, bumping to boards. DJ has light sunning, rubbing and scuffing. Pages are clean and tight. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated with b/w pictures. Account of the Californian Hetch Hetchy & Yosemite Valleys Railway, latterly known as West Side Lumber Company's logging railroad. Locomotives included Shay and Heisler types operating the narrow gauge lines. In its last days it was unique. It was the remaining narrow gauge logging railroad west of the Rockies. And it had the largest stable of steam engines still running in the state..... Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Cultural History; Social History; Transportation History; Logging Industry; California History; Steam Engines; Railroad Companies; Railways; Business History;
Price: US$ 16.25 Seller: Pegasus Books
- Book number: 13827