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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9781570720529
ISBN number: 1570720525
Label: Overmountain Press
Manufacturer: Overmountain Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 190
Printing Date: 1996-07
Publishing house: Overmountain Press
Sale Popularity Level: 2223517
Studio: Overmountain Press
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This incredibly easy-to-read work, with dozens of never- before-published photographs, traces the 140-year rise and fall and rise again of this tenacious railway. Charting the ups and downs of the line's construction-the politics, squabbling, triumphs, and failures-the author provides a microcosmic overview of American railroading in this story of a single line. Life on the railroad through the Great Depression, World War II, dieselization, and ab-sorption by Southern Railway are explored, punc-tuated by the real-life experiences of old-timers. Nearly 200 maps and photographs complement the text. Together they deliver an inspiring, historical tale of the Carolina & North-Western.
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"History of the Carolina & North-Western Railway" is an immensely-interesting and informative work.
Matthew C. Bumgarner, a lifelong rail enthusiast, examines 140 years of the rise and fall and rise again of this resilient shortline railway, which once had nearly 150 miles of track through North and South Carolina.
From its prosperous days in the early 1900s to its final years in the late 1940s, the rail line carried everything from people and freight to logs and livestock.
Bumgarner writers with warmth and concision--a prose style that marvelously matches the book's detailed maps and historic photographs.
Rail fans should definitely peruse this vital work.
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