High Iron A Book of Trains Lucius Beebe Dust Jacket

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High Iron A Book of Trains Lucius Beebe Dust Jacket   High Iron A Book of Trains Lucius Beebe Hard cover with DUST JACKET (HAS some damage)  Address label on front page (crossed out) Copyright 1938   Bonanza Books 226 pages.  Indexed.  Copyright 1938. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION3 I "0 PIONEERS"13 2 SPEED  55 3 POWER.89 4 DELUXE163 CAR HERALDS, DEVICES AND INSIGNIA OF THE PRINCIPAL RAILROADS OF NORTH AMERICA.211 A GLOSSARY OF RAILROAD TERMS, SLANG AND USAGE 219 BIBLIOGRAPHY.226 ILLUSTRATIONS The Chief in the Cajon Pass  frontispiece Speed on the Boston and Albany  title-page Mixed Train along the Erie  v Hotshot into the Main  vii Fuel for the Forty-Niner  ix Smokebox, D. & R.G.W. 4-8-4 1 Westward Course of Empire..11 Pride of the Central, 1870  16 Around Cape Horn  21 The High Sierras, 1868  22 In the Cisco Yards, 1867  22 The Yesterday of Bret Harte  23 The Union's 119, Promontory Protagonist .23 Central Pacific Construction in the Sierras  24 Above the American River  25 Heading Out of Cisco  25 The U.P. Trail  26 Steel across the Humboldt  26 Leland Stanford's Train at Monument Rock27 The Railroad Moves East  28 Dodge's Telegram of May 10, 186928 Rendezvous with Destiny  29 After the Last Tie  29 Texas and Pacific Ten-wheeler with Water Tank  30 The Last Rail30 San Francisco's Last-Spike Parade  31 The Improved Burdett Organ  32 Back Head, 186933 Huntington Hopkins & Co., Sacramento  33 Union Pacific Construction Train  34 Grandfather Braves the High Sierras  35 Super-Power in the Sixties  35 Track Inspection, 1869  36 Track Inspection, Twentieth Century  36 Along the Old New Haven  37 Snow above Reno  42 Roundhouse Pastoral, Sacramento, 1872  47 Highball  51 Green for the Super Chief  53 Nocturne in the Erie Yards  58 Pennsy Poster, 1905  64 The Empire State at Poughkeepsie  65 Erie Pastoral  66 The Chief Lifts to the Hills  67 The 400  68 The Southern Pacific Lark  69 The Mercury at Speed  69 Wheeling the Reading's Varnish  70 Super-Pocono on the Lackawanna  71 The Empire Builder Pauses at Minot  71 Speed along the U.P. Trail  72 The Southwestern Limited Hits the Curves  73 The Grand Canyon Limited Heads for Barstow  74 The Pennsylvania's New Yorker  75 The Now Discontinued Apache on the Espee . . . . . . .  75 Modernity along the Alton  76 The Green Diamond  76 The New England States Limited  77 Streamlined Super-Power of the New Haven . . . . . . .  78 The Milwaukee's Day Express  79 Down East Diesel Power  79 Double-header out of San Bernardino  80 The Texas Rocket at Fort Worth  81 Speed at Burlingame, 1884  81 The Rainbow West of Paoli  85 Outside Motion  87 Forty-niner  92 Heavy Power on the Texas and Pacific . . . . . . . .  97 "Up from the South at Break of Day"  99 The Glory of the Narrow Gage  100 Pennsy Santa Fe-Type in Action101 Fort Worth and Denver City No. 2-22  101 Southern Pacific Excursion  102 Texas-type on the T. & P 102 The Kennebec Limited  103 The Union Pacific's No. 9000  104 Texas Pacific Mixed Freight   105 Main Line Lyric   106 The Silk Express   107 Articulated Power on the Central . . . . . . . . .   107 Maiden Run of a Berkshire  108 Western Pacific Hotshot ..109 The Overland Nears Home  110 Sunset and the Frisco's Meteor  110 Canadian Pacific Pool Train   111 Back Head by Baldwin ..112 Classification Yards and Retarders ..113 Wheeling and Lake Erie Varnish  114 Versatile Wabash Power   115 The Cheyenne Mail  116 American Type on the Boston and Maine . . . . . . . .  116 Storming down the Panhandle  117 Headed for the Royal Gorge  122 Water at Abilene  129 In the San Bernardinos  133 Highballing the Mail on the B. & O.  134 Redball out of Fort Worth  134 The Pony Express  135 In British Columbia  136 Up Sherman Hill  136 Super-Power in the Colorado Rockies .137 Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Drag  138 Colorado and Southern Fast Freight ..138 The Gulf Coast Limited  139 The Archetypal 4-4-0  140 On the Outside Iron   141 "In Yellow Fields of Asphodel"  142 The Corn King Rolling Home  142 The Vaudreuil Mail  143 The Challenger, First Section  144 Double-heading out of Canton  145 Test Run on the C. & O.  146 Green and Gold of the Southern.147 Into the Alexandria Yards  147 Cab-first Espee Mallet  148 Old Timer on the Santa Fe  148 The Norfolk and Western Rolls Its Freight . . . . . . .  149 Double-shotted for Leadville  150 Southern Pacific Drag  150 The Nickel Plate Limited  151 On the Santa Fe Trail  152 Mobile and Ohio Diesel Unit at St. Louis  152 Pulse of the Iron  154 Ready to Go  157 The Overland Limited  159 Nickel Plate Highliner  161 Smokebox by Henry Dreyfuss  165 Shot Welded  168 Mountain Division  171 Aboard the Super Chief   172 Chic in '69  173 Drawing-Room Car de Luxe  173 The Frisco's Bluebonnet   174 The Reading's Crusader   175 Texas and New Orleans Streamliner  175 Back to Old Virginny  176 Decorum in Transit  177 Plovers' Eggs and Claret   177 Pride of the Monon  178 The South Texas Sunshine  179 De Luxe on the Texas and Pacific  179 The Golden State Limited  18o Highliner on the Katy  181 Fashionable Yard Goat  181 Timber-line Varnish  182 Pride of the Western Pacific  183 "The Most Beautiful Train in the World". . . . . . .  184 The Ghost Train of the Nineties  185 Pride of the New York and New England . . . . . . . .  186 The Best People Dined Here  187 Hassocks and Plush  187 Down East Varnish  190 The Romantic Forty-niner  191 The Century As Was  191 "The Tall Far-Trafficking Shapes" .192 The Cycle of the Century  193 Spic and Span: the Wabash Varnish .194 Luxury Hotel on Wheels ....195 New Haven Heavy Pacific  196 The City of Denver  197 Stylish and Gleaming: the St. Louis Zipper  197 Favored of Cabots and Saltonstalls   198 After the Comstock Lode  198 In the Era of the Gibson Girl  199 Miracle of Modernity.200 Crossing the Plains in Style  200 The City of Mexico  201 The Empire Builder, 1910  202 The First Super Chief  203 Here Was Elegance  203 He Bends the Iron  205 Envoi  207 Fastest Greyhound: the Denver Zephyr  209 In Deepest Texas   217 DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION: "High Iron" is a record in prose and pictures of some of the more arresting aspects of the most heroic of American sagas, the legend of railroading. It is not a history of railroads nor is it a handbook of the evolution of trains and locomotives. It concerns itself with the magnificence, the romance and the grandeur of steam and steel and speed from the time of the first mile a minute run by the Antelope in 1848 to the ultimate luxury of private suites aboard the Super Chief whose working schedule calls for clipping off the New Mexico miles at a hundred and ten to the hour. Its photographs, perhaps the finest collection of railroad shots ever gathered together in popular form, embrace trains and engines from the Central Pacific eight wheelers which pushed the railhead from Sacramento up into the lofty Sierras to the rugged symmetry of the Pennsy's celebrated Kos and the Southern Pacific's glamorous Daylight. Additional features of the book are an extensive glossary of railroad terms and slang and a useful guide for the identification of railroad car heralds and insignia. For railroad aficionados whose hearts may lie in the high passes of the Cajon and Glorieta or in the lush meadows of New England with its single tracks passing under covered bridges it is a breathless panorama of the saga of American railroads. Many of its photographs, taken by the author, will appeal to the fastidious collector of locomotive pictures (than whom there is none more exacting) as among the most dramatic action pictures in their field. "High Iron" is a compelling chronicle of the beauty of gleaming valve motion and the thunder of eighty-inch drivers that will appeal to every American who has ever watched the Overland climb the Nevada horizon or heard the urgent Century whistle for a midnight crossing in upper New York. LOTS OF photos! All pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. 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