Rails that climb; the story of the Moffat Road. / Drawings by Wilfred Stedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollinger, Edward T., 1907-1988, author, signer.

Contributor:

Stedman, Wilfred, 1892-1950, illustrator.

Rupp Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moffat, David H. (David Halliday), 1839-1911.

Moffat, David H.

Denver and Salt Lake Railway Company.

Genre:

Limitation statements.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Endpapers (Binding)

Authors' autographs.

Physical Description:

xvii, 402 : illustrations, portraits, maps (on lining papers) ; 24 cm

Edition:

W. C. Jones edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : Rydal Press, [1950]

Contents:

A great man dreams

Men and mountains

The pattern of things to come

If a man have faith

Time card number one

Rails that climb

The next day it snowed

Number One battles snow

Nine extras east, light

Springtime in the Rockies

Argo's squirrels in Gore Cañon

Arrowhead to Sulphur

Arrowhead, boom town

Murder at Arrowhead

Intrigue in Gore Cañon

From summer's glow to winter's snow

Uncle Dave's last stand

Barnes cheats the meat grinder

End of the road, Craig

Pranks and miracles of the famous 200's

Doc Susie Anderson of Fraser

The Moffat saved by the Kaiser and oil

Blockades and the world's largest ice pick

Moffat Tunnel

Dotsero cut-off

The rebuilding of the Moffat

We have never lost a passenger's life

From president to gandy dancer

Meet order of California Zephyr and Extra 210 East

The last run of George Barnes

Appendix.

Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Maps on lining-papers.

"Manufactured in the United States of America by the Rydal Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico"--t.p. verso.

Contains bibliography and the "Last Official Roster of Denver and Salt Lake, April 10, 1947" as well as a list of the locomotives at the back with "Facts of Historical Interest".

Bibliography: page 399.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: No. 208 of 550 copies, signed by the author.

OCLC:

1225776