Bingham Canyon Railroads
Bingham Canyon Railroads

Author: Don Strack

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738584898

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Railroads and mining in Bingham Canyon have gone hand in hand since the first railroad was constructed in the canyon in late 1873. Bingham Canyon in the early years was a gold and silver mining camp, and the railroads were small operations. Copper mining took hold in the late 1890s, and the mines, mining companies, and railroads that served them expanded rapidly. Bingham Canyon soon became the largest and richest mining district in the western United States and was the source for as much as a third of the copper mined in the nation. A variety of locomotives worked in the canyon, including a small number of Shay locomotives, several large articulated steam locomotives, and the nation's largest roster of electric locomotives. The last Bingham Canyon ore train ran in late 2001. While the railroad tracks have been removed, the mine itself is very much in full production and remains the source for 25 percent of the nation's copper production.

Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties
Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties

Author: Katy M. Tahja

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738596213

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Locomotive steam whistles echo no more in the forests of the north California coast. A century ago, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties had more than 40 railroads bringing logs out of the forest to mills at the water's edge. Only one single railroad ever connected to the outside world, and it too is gone. One railroad survives as the Skunk Train in Mendocino County, and it carries tourists today instead of lumber. Redwood and tan oak bark were the two products moved by rail, and very little else was hauled other than lumberjacks and an occasional picnic excursion for loggers' families. Economic depressions and the advent of trucking saw railroads vanish like a puff of steam from the landscape.

Tooele Valley Railroad
Tooele Valley Railroad

Author: Emma Louise Penrod

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-09-30

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439644055

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Shortly after the International Smelter offered economic salvation to Tooeles struggling desert community, the Tooele Valley Railroad became the town artery. Though originally built in 1908 to connect the smelter to the Union Pacific and Western Pacific lines west of town, the railroad became central to daily life. Hundreds of local workers rode it to and from work each day. As technology continued to change Tooele, the Tooele Valley Railroad shared Vine Street with the first automobilessafety precautions required that the caboose, with a horn mounted to warn motorists, lead the oncoming train. However, the smelters decades of prosperity proved short-lived, and by the 1930s, the town had fallen on difficult times once again. The railroad outlived the smelter, but operations ceased in the early 1980s, and the city had the abandoned tracks removed.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad across New Jersey
The Lehigh Valley Railroad across New Jersey

Author: Ralph A. Heiss

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009-08-24

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439622280

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Constructed as the Easton and Amboy Railroad, opened by 1875, the Lehigh Valley Railroad was instrumental in developing commerce and communities of central New Jersey. Thout it no longer runs, it was originally built to haul unending trains of "black diamonds" from Pennsylvania to Perth Amboy, the Lehigh Valley Railroad became so much more than a conduit for shipping coal. In building across the state, it became instrumental in not only hauling produce to New York City markets but also for providing service to companies like Johns-Manville and Lionel Trains. From Phillipsburg to Jersey City and all points in between, the Lehigh Valley Railroad hauled freight and passengers, while at the same time contributing to the social fabric of the area. The Lehigh Valley Railroad across New Jersey paints a picture of a railroad that provided over 100 years of quality service to the Garden State.

Utah History Encyclopedia
Utah History Encyclopedia

Author: Allan Kent Powell

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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The first complete history of Utah in encyclopedic form, with entries from Anasazi to ZCMI!

Pacific Electric Red Cars
Pacific Electric Red Cars

Author: Jim Walker

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780738546889

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Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban."

Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Northwestern Pacific Railroad

Author: Fred Codoni

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0738531219

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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad--the Redwood Empire Route--once stretched its shining track from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay. Created by the amalgamation of 42 different companies, the North Coast railroad network ranged from the Sonoma Prismoidal, an early wooden monorail, to broad-gauge logging lines built to be hauled by horses. In between were the two-foot Sonoma Magnesite Railroad, the narrow-gauge North Pacific Coast, and standard-gauge lines. Determining the route of major highways, this versatile transportation system also incorporated electric interurbans, ferry steamboats, sternwheel riverboats, tugs, car f loats, and unusual connectors like funiculars and scenic tourist railways. From the time of its formation in 1907 until the 1970s, Northwestern Pacific trains and boats were loaded with passengers and freight.