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Books: Railroads and Logging

Appalachain Coal Mines & Railroads
by Thomas W. Dixon Jr.

Featuring more than 100 Photographs, this book covers the transportation of coal from the Appalachian coalfields to its markets by train, from the 193......[more]

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Appalachain Coal Mines & Railroads

Appalachian Conquest
By Eugene Huddleston, Ph.D.
Sale Price $11.95
138 pages, 8.5 x 11.5, Hardcover


This well-researched volume details how the railroads conquered the rugged Appalachian Mountains. With elaborate tunnels and bridges, the C & O, N & W......[more]

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Appalachian Conquest

Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, 1945-1971 Vol. 1
by Harry Stegmaier
Hardback


This book is fully illustrated with color photos, maps, diagrams, and mechanical drawings, as well as many photos of Terra Alta, Grafton, and other ne......[more]

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Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, 1945-1971 Vol. 1

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky
By Thomas Dixon
8 x 11, 110 pages, Hardcover


This fully illustrated book shows operations along the C&O in southern West Virginia during the post-WWII era. Included are detailed drawings of minin......[more]

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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky

Chessie System Railroads in West Virginia
By Tom Dixon
8.5 x 11, 64 pages, Paperback


This book is an album of 135 full-color photos depicting trains operating exclusively in West Virginia on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio, and......[more]

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Chessie System Railroads in West Virginia

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in West Virginia Photos, 1940-1960, The
By Thomas Dixon
8.5 x 11, 80 pages, Paperback


This book contains more than 130 black-and-white and 25 color photos of C&O operations in West Virginia. Much of C&O’s wealth came from hauling West ......[more]

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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in West Virginia Photos, 1940-1960, The

Durbin Route: The Greenbrier Division of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, The
by William Price McNeel
Paperback


Author Bill McNeel shares his extensive knowledge, research, and affection for the Greenbrier Valley and the railroad that served it. McNeel chronicle......[more]

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Durbin Route: The Greenbrier Division of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, The

On Beyond Leatherbark: The Cass Saga
by Roy Clarkson
Hardback


Roy Clarkson has written an exhaustive and fascinating history of the town of Cass, covering the years from 1900-1990. What once consisted of three ho......[more]

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On Beyond Leatherbark: The Cass Saga

Shay Logging Locomotives at Cass, West Virginia, 1900-1960
by Philip Bagdon
Hardback, Fully Illustrated


This book features the complete history of each geared steam locomotive used by the lumber companies operating out of Cass, West Virginia, originally ......[more]

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Shay Logging Locomotives at Cass, West Virginia, 1900-1960

Tumult On the Mountains: Lumbering in West Virginia, 1770-1920
by Roy Clarkson
5.75 x 9, 410 pages, Hardcover


Tumult on the Mountains starts with the birth of West Virginia's lumbering industry and follows it through its rapid decline around 1909. The industry......[more]

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Tumult On the Mountains: Lumbering in West Virginia, 1770-1920

Western Maryland Railway in West Virginia: The Photographs of G. H. Broadwater
By Alan Clarke
8.5 x 11, 178 pages, Hardcover.


At the end of the nineteenth century, railroads entered the mountains of eastern and central West Virginia for the first time, opening the area first ......[more]

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Western Maryland Railway in West Virginia: The Photographs of G. H. Broadwater

West Virginia and the Captains of Industry
by John Alexander Williams
Paperback


Beginning in antebellum times, but at a much quickened pace after the Civil War, an industrial economy emerged in West Virginia based on the extractio......[more]

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West Virginia and the Captains of Industry

West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway: A Western Maryland Predecessor
By Alan Clarke
On Sale! $9.95, Regular $32.95, 8.75 x 11.25, 160 pages, Hardcover


Beginning as a narrow gauge line in 1880 and changing its name and gauge in 1881, this line opened the rich mining and timber regions of northern West......[more]

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West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway: A Western Maryland Predecessor

West Virginia's Coal and Coke Railroad: A B & O Predecessor
by Alan Clarke
8.5 x 11, 176 pages, Hardback


Highly researched, well written, and informative, West Virginia's Coal and Coke Railroad is a much needed chapter in state history! Prior to this book......[more]

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West Virginia's Coal and Coke Railroad: A B & O Predecessor

West Virginia’s Last Logging Railroad: Meadow River Lumber Company
By Philip Bagdon
8.5 x 11, 76 pages, Paperback


This book offers a full history, from 1912 to 1971, of this huge lumbering operation. By 1929, Meadow River was the largest hardwood lumber manufactur......[more]

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West Virginia’s Last Logging Railroad: Meadow River Lumber Company

West Virginia Logging Railroads
By William E. Warden
8.5 x 11, 108 pages, Hardback


William Warden began photographing West Virginia’s logging railroads in 1957. His extensive collection of color and black-and-white photographs record......[more]

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West Virginia Logging Railroads

West Virginia Narrow Gauge: Mann's Creek Railway
by Ron Lane and Ted Schnepf
Hardback


In November 1886, the new nine-mile-long narrow gauge Mann's Creek Railway made its first official run hauling coal. Eventually growing to 20 miles in......[more]

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West Virginia Narrow Gauge: Mann's Creek Railway

West Virginia Railroads: Railroading in the Mountain State
By Thomas W. Dixon
8.5 x 11, 128 pages, Paperback


This book outlines West Virginia’s railroading history from the earliest entry of the Baltimore & Ohio up to the 1960s. Besides highlighting major li......[more]

Price: $19.95
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West Virginia Railroads: Railroading in the Mountain State

West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad: The B&O’s Road to the Hardwoods, The
By Alan Clarke
8.5 x 11.25, 226 pages, Hardcover


Friends and rivals Johnson Newlon Camden and Henry Gassaway Davis spearheaded the construction of railroads that opened access to untouched stands of ......[more]

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West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad: The B&O’s Road to the Hardwoods, The




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