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$3.00 HIGHER IN CANADA SIERRA NEVADA RAILROADING They Felled the Redwoods Diesels Over Donner The illustrated Story of the rise and fall of the Sanger Lumber Co. and the Legendary photographers Richard Steinheimer and Dick Dorn teamed up Hume-Bennett Lumber Co. Located just a few miles ftom today's with Shirley Burman and Don Sims to put together this stunning, all­ Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks high in the Sierra, these log­ color look at the West's first, and perhaps most famous , mountain pass. ging operations provided all the excitement of lumbering: straining Shay "A lovely , lyrical appreciation of what remains one of the toughest and locomotives, giant log chutes, a 54-mile flume, donkey engines, and a busiest passes negotiated by rail. The 105 good color photos and their unique cast of characters. Unfortunately, this show was carried on with captions justify the book; but we find the description of the now­ the Giant Sequoia as its victim, but there was a happy ending with the departed mole people of Norden, traversing their tunnels under 20 feet formation of Sequoia National Forest. Author Hank Johnston tells the of snow, to be of equal charm. ." says Reference & Research. "The events in exciting ptose and beautifully reptoduced photos. 160 pages, book is excellent," says Trains. 104 pages, 105 color photos, 10 '/.0 x8'h" 200 photos, maps, index, 8 '/2x11 " sewn softbound with duotone cover. hardbound album format with color dust jacket. Ttans-Anglo 203 (add $2 p/h) ............ .. .. .. 22 .95 Trans-Anglo 290 (add $2 p/h) . .... .. .. .... ..... .. 49.95 The Feather River Route- Part One Thunder in the Mountains In this, the fust of a two-volume salon of the Western Pacific, author Ken The story of the life and times of a fascinating California lumber oper­ Rattenne takes you ftom corporate headquarters in San Francisco to the ation last known as the Madera Sugar Pine Company, operators of an town of Keddie , deep in the Feather River Canyon. Done with spectacular intriguing logging railroad with geared locomotives (part of which grade photography and sensitive ptose, it's highlighted by a variety of motive is operated over today by the Yosemite Mountain & Sugar Pine tourist power, from FP7-powered Caltfornia Zephyrs to green-and-orange rail toad) and logging flumes to bring lumber to market. 128 pages, 160 GP40-2s on Altamont Pass! " . a nice combination of old and new illustrations, maps, locomotive toster, 8'12 x11" sewn softbound with ... " says Railfon & Rat/road. 144 pages, 260 B&W and 16 color photos, duotone cover. By Hank Johnston 10 '/4X8 '12 " hardbound album format with striking color dust jacket. Trans-Anglo 217 (add $2 p/h) ....... ..... ... ... .. .. 23 .95 Trans-Anglo 291 (add $2 p/h) ... .. .. .. .. ........... ... .42.95 Hetch Hetchy and Its Dam Railroad Slim Rails Through the Sand Until 1930, San Francisco's water was furnished by a private utility, a George Turner's classic book about the Carson & Colorado, narrow-gauge company which occasionally ran out of water and charged high rates for stepchild of the fabled Virginia & Truckee Railtoad. Sold in 1900 to the the service. The inadequacy of supply was btought sttongly to The City's Southern Pacific, the line turned imo an instant bonanza for the Espee attention in 1906, when the Great Earthquake and Fire ravaged the following the discovery of precious metals in Tonopah and Goldfield, business district and the homes of 250 ,000 people. Problems existed with Nevada. Soon enough, though, the glory days were over for the line, and obtaining rights-of-way, water rights, and funding, and there was plenty the nartow gauge soldiered on in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada until of opposition from the private water utility and conservationists as well­ 1960. 112 pages, 200 photos from all eras, maps, scale drawings, but today, the City and County of San Francisco owns and operates its 8'12 x11" softbound with color cover. own water and power system. The complete story of this fascinating Trans-Anglo 240 (add $2 p/h) . .. ........ • ......•.... 19.95 achievement is told, along with the building, operations, and equipment of a marvelous rail toad which overcame the ptoblem of getting men and materials into the rugged Sierra Nevada. A classic now back in print, by Rails to the Minarets Ted Wurm. 298 pages, 456 illustrations, maps, motive power tosters, The intriguing story of the Sugar Pine Lumber Co. of Fresno, California, index. 8'hx11" hardbound with color dust jacket. and its Minarets & Western Railway, renowned for its role in Sierra Nevada Trans-Anglo 293 (add $2 p I h) ... .... ............. .. ...... 54.95 logging history. In addition, you'll see some of the finest photographs ever raken of Sierra logging, presented in large format style. Logging historian Hank Johnston's text is joined by 180 illustrarions, including maps and drawings. 128 pages, 8 '12 x11 " hardbound with new duotone dust jacket. 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