Logging Railroads Of South Carolina

Author : Thomas T. Fetters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911581096
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of South Carolina written by Thomas T. Fetters and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the independent and commercial loggers whose desire for the "green gold" helped shape South Carolina's history.

Author : Thomas Fetters
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625843852
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charleston & Hamburg: A South Carolina Railroad & an American Legacy written by Thomas Fetters and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many claim that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first in the United States, but in reality the Charleston & Hamburg was the first to provide regular service to passengers when it opened its doors in Charleston, South Carolina, on Christmas Day 1830. It would ultimately carry people and goods from the Lowcountry to what is now north Augusta. This volume by historian Thomas Fetters presents a fresh new look at the development and operations of America's premier railroad, including surprising information about key players and newly discovered stories about the railroad's role in the American Civil War. A comprehensive account of the Charleston & Hamburg's history from its inception through Reconstruction, The Charleston & Hamburg, with its forgotten stories of America's premier railroad, is a necessary addition to the bookshelves of historians and rail fans alike!

Author : Cary Franklin Poole
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807878
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina written by Cary Franklin Poole and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the most comprehensive of its kind, the author examines in engaging narrative and wonderful photography the development of the area’s complete railroading industry—Class 1 railroads, short lines, industrial and mining roads, and logging lines. Added to the textual histories are more than three hundred photographs and illustrations, including timetables and maps for most of the lines discussed.

Author : Alan Coleman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738553368
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railroads of North Carolina written by Alan Coleman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the opening of the first permanent railway in 1833, hundreds of railroad companies have operated in North Carolina. Rail transportation, faster and more efficient than other methods of the era, opened new markets for the products of North Carolina's farms, factories, and mines. Over the years, North Carolina rail companies have ranged in size from well-engineered giants like the Southern Railway to temporary logging railroads like the Hemlock. Cross ties and rails were laid across almost every conceivable terrain: tidal marshes, sand hills, rolling piedmont, and mountain grades. Vulnerable to the turbulent and unregulated economies of the day, few railroad companies escaped reorganizations and receiverships during their corporate lives, often leaving tangled and contradictory histories in their passing.

Author : James S. Hannum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Moore County, North Carolina, Short Lines and Logging Railroads written by James S. Hannum and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kramer A. Adams
Publisher : Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of the West written by Kramer A. Adams and published by Seattle : Superior Publishing Company. This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers logging railroad history in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevaha, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico from the 1860's through the 1950's.

Author : William Warden
Publisher : Quarrier Press
ISBN 13 : 9781942294481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Virginia Logging Railroads written by William Warden and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. This book explains--and illustrates with both color and black & white photographs--the operations of logging railroads in the state from about 1940-1960. It includes a fascinating look at the rapid and haphazard laying of track, the challenge of getting up the mountains, and the hazards of derailing locomotives. Warden's book addresses the romance of back woods railroading. With puffy white clouds in an azure blue sky, a Shay type narrow gauge geared locomotive on the Ely-Thomas Lumber Company's logging railroad hauls a train of logs toward the mill in June 1954. This scene is typical of the interesting West Virginia logging railroad operations that are portrayed in this book. In another Ely-Thomas Lumber Company scene, Shay No. 5 prepares to cross Manns Run, near the end of this narrow gauge logging line's life in October. William E. Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. He prepared this book to illustrate and explain the methods and operations of logging railroads in West Virginia in the last twenty years that they ran, ending about 1960. West Virginia was one of the nation's largest producers of lumber beginning in the late 19th Century and extending into the middle third of the 20th Century. It had hundreds of logging railroads carrying huge quantities of timber to mills for processing into finished lumber, which was then shipped all over the United States, again by rail. The lumber industry in West Virginia began its decline when the great stands of virgin forest began to be depleted, and by the 1950s, there were only a half-dozen or so operations left still using logging railroads. There remain many logging and lumber milling operations in the state, but today the logs are taken from the forest by motor truck to modern, highly automated mills. The romance of back woods railroading holds a particular allure and nostalgia today, even as it did when these last few lines were still operating. We are lucky that Bill Warden and others were there to photograph the last decades. The book treats in detail five of the last and largest companies to use logging railroads and illustrates each line in some detail. Also included are chapters about logging in West Virginia and the locomotives that were favorites of the loggers--the famous geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler types. Today tourists can experience some of the logging railroad flavor by riding the Cass Scenic Railroad over the old line of the Mower Lumber Company out of Cass, W.Va.

Author : William Gove
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607946
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks written by William Gove and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of 1890-1950 marked the romantic era of steam power as the rails reached deep into the old growth of the Adirondack woods to harvest the timber crop. In this volume, not only does William Gove provide an in-depth history of railroad activity in the Adirondacks he also describes the logging methods used, the role of railroads in the logging industry, and the influence of the railroads on the condition of the Adirondack forest today. In addition, he addresses the political and economic forces determining the location and viability of logging railroads, villages, and the forest industry.

Author : Murry Hammond
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655871
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Texas Logging Railroads written by Murry Hammond and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over, thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built, and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed, the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned, but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557875900
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lopsided Three: A History of Railroading, Logging and Mining in the Holston, Doe and Watauga Valleys of Northeast Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: