Guidebook describes scenic viewpoints, plants, wildlife, geology, history along the route. Many photographs and maps.
JU MILES FROM DENVER - -- I & H # : 9 Ss . -- ... Harper's New Monthly Magazine , APRIL 1882 . a “ We have reached the temporary end of track , ” reported George R. Buckman of Lippincott's in Pueblo's daily Chieftain .
Includes the fascinating story of the lady named Betty Pellet, who saved the RGS in World War II; features line drawings of structures between Rico and Dolores, Colorado, by Mike Blazek plus many detailed maps by Jim Key.
"Though the mining boom has passed, the railroad endures. riders board the train filled with a sense of adventure and excitement much like their predecesoors first did 129 years ago..."--P. [4] of cover.
Non-standard & Miniature Gauge, Preserved Trams & Funicular Railways
Narrow Gauge Railway Scenes
In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the world's steam-worked narrow gauge railways in the twenty-first century, concentrating mostly on views which show the scenery, both natural and man-made, through which they ran.
The Festiniog Railway's pre-1921 history is covered in Peter Johnson's book, Festiniog Railway the Spooner era and after 1830-1920, also published by Pen & Sword Transport.
Situated in the beautiful rolling hill country of Montgomeryshire, this 9-mile narrow-gauge railway opened in 1903 to link Welshpool with Llanfair Caereinion.
A journey through part of the Colorado Rockies aboard a steam locomotive of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Includes historical and descriptive notes on the Durango & Silverton trains.
The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway