RAILS TO THE ROCKIES

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A PICTORIAL PRESENTATION OF RAILROADING IN THE ROCKIES

220 Photographs, equipment drawings for the modeller, three paintings including one in full color, several maps, timetables and passes.

The Colorado Rockies, timeless, formidable, a natural barrier to man, yet, a few railroads would ignore the obstacles and build their three foot rails into the Rockies. Such is the story of Rails to the Rockies, a saga of man and steam played against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains.

In matchless photographs, the author recreates the Colorado Frontier from the 1880s to the 1970s. Railroading in the high country with fragile little narrow-gauge engines barely pulling their short trains over ruling grades and around tight radius curves to reach the ultimate destination, the rich mining towns of Central City, Cripple Creek, Leadville, and Silverton

Here also is contained the glory days of steam in the Twentieth Century. the mighty mallets of the Rio Grande and the Denver and Salt Lake with heavy tonnage on their drawbar. A complete pictorial is told of this Rocky Mountain empire from narrow gauge to standard gauge, covering a wide selection of rolling stock from several Colorado railroads, both past and present. This text directs itself toward railroading in Colorado’s high country with its beauty, pageantry, and search for the never ending Rails to the Rockies

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Description

Authored by Gregory Le Pak and published by Alpine Publishing of Littleton Colorado in 1976. Hard cover bound this First Edition, 2nd Impression copy is in Fine condition, covered in plastic, with a Very Good dust jacket. The size of the book is 312x235x15mm, with 126 pages. The Library of Congress Card Catalog Numberis 76-12746. The dust jacket is  slightly rubbed on front; closed tears 18, 10, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1mm; frittered at head & top corners, now restored. 126 pp; b&w photos throughout the text.