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The Switzerland trail of America; an illustrated history of the romantic narrow gauge lines running west from Boulder, Colorado: the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific, and the Colorado & Northwestern, later the Denver, Boulder & Western.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia TF24.C6 C7 1962
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crossen, Forest.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Denver, Boulder, and Western Railroad Company.
- Greeley, Salt Lake, and Pacific Railway Company.
- Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado.
- Narrow gauge railroads.
- Colorado.
- Genre:
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Endpapers (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- x, 417 pages : illustrations (part color) maps (3 folded in pocket) ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- [Limited edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Pruett Press, [1962]
- Contents:
- The gold and silver hills
- Roads to the mines
- A railroad to the mountains
- The Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific
- The Colorado & Northwestern
- The bright early years
- The face of trouble
- Eldora extension and third rail
- The Denver, Boulder & Western
- Stanley Steamers and the big snow
- The tungsten boom and World War I
- The end of the trail
- The lure of the trail
- Stations
- Stories of the trail
- Locomotives, rolling stock, and equipment
- The return of No. 30.
- Notes:
- Edition limited to 4,000 volumes; Athenaeum copy number 1182.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Illustrated lining-papers.
- OCLC:
- 3464101
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