Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Lloyd Lewis and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume in the West Virginia Railroads series tells the story of the Virginian Railway within the state. Built late in the railway era, it was intended for the almost exclusive haulage of coal from West Virginia mines to Norfolk, Virginia. The Virginian operated a 136 mile electrified mainline, much of it through its West Virginia territory, which improved operations over steam power. Because of its lack of passenger and general freight, and concentration on coal, it had a reputation as an unmatched money-maker. Organized in 1907, it was absorbed by Norfolk & Western in 1959. The book has over 175 photos, maps, track plans and tables that illustrate operations as well as full sections on electric operations, steam motive power, passenger service (of which VGN had little), and data on each of its various branches in the coal fields. Many have not been published before. Hardbound and printed on heavy 100-pound glossy paper, this is a handsome addition to any library and will complement the collection of this series.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads Volume 2 written by Thomas Dixon, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Thomas W Dixon, Jr and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is second in a series of books on the railroads in West Virginia. The first volume, published November, 2009 gives an overview of all roadroads in the state, while this volume deals exclusively with the C&O. The era is mid-20th Century (1935-1965) and the story is told not only with the words and photos but with many maps and drawings that show how C&O's lines in W. Virginia really worked and how they comprised the key element of the seven state C&O system. This is very much a reference book and Gazetteer, and publishes information lacking from the several previous books on various aspects of this subject. Subsequent volumes will deal with other individual railroads with West Virginia.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Bob Withers and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted railroad author and B&O historian Bob Withers does a great job telling this important part of the West Virginia Railroads story. This third volume of the series features the B&O that entered the state in the 1830's and grew with the development of the coal and lumber industries.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Lloyd Lewis and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume in the West Virginia Railroads series tells the story of the Virginian Railway within the state. Built late in the railway era, it was intended for the almost exclusive haulage of coal from West Virginia mines to Norfolk, Virginia. The Virginian operated a 136 mile electrified mainline, much of it through its West Virginia territory, which improved operations over steam power. Because of its lack of passenger and general freight, and concentration on coal, it had a reputation as an unmatched money-maker. Organized in 1907, it was absorbed by Norfolk & Western in 1959. The book has over 175 photos, maps, track plans and tables that illustrate operations as well as full sections on electric operations, steam motive power, passenger service (of which VGN had little), and data on each of its various branches in the coal fields. Many have not been published before. Hardbound and printed on heavy 100-pound glossy paper, this is a handsome addition to any library and will complement the collection of this series.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads Volume 1 Railroading In the Mountain State written by Thomas W. Dixon and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the history of railroading in West Virginia from the earliest entry of Baltimore & Ohio into what was then western Virginia up to the 1960's. In addition to the B&O, C&O, Western Maryland, N&W, and Virginian sections on smaller operations of logging and coal lines.
Download or read book West Virginia s Last Logging Railroad the Meadow River Lumber Company written by Philip V Bagdon and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete history of West Virginia's largest logging railroad which was also its last, operating 1912-1972. It operated Shay, Heisler, and Climax geared steam locomotives and in the last 15 years also had diesels. The book covers the locomotives in detail, the cars and the operations as well as background on the company and its owners, the Raine family. Photos show all aspects of the operation and the people involved. Meadow River was at one time the largest producer of hardwood lumber in the world. Some of its equipment has survived to operate on tourist lines.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads Volume 2 written by Thomnas Dixon, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is second in a series of books on railroads in West Virginia. The first volume, published in 2009, gives an overview of all railroads in the state, while this volume deals exclusively with the C & O. The era is Mid-20th Century (1935-1965), and the story is told not only with words and photos but with many maps and drawings that show how C & O's lines in West Virginia really worked and how the comprised the key element of the seven-state C&O system.
Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia written by Bob Withers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.
Download or read book West Virginia Narrow Gauge Mann s Creek Railway written by Ron Lane and published by TLC Publishing (CT). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Transforming the Appalachian Countryside written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Thomas Dixon and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the history of railroading in West Virginia from the earliest entry of Baltimrore & Ohio into what was then western Virginia up to the 1960s. In addition to B&O, Chesapeake & Ohio, Western Maryland, Norfolk & Western, and Virginian have major chapters. Smaller sections cover the New York Central, short lines, logging railroads, and others that had only a smaller presence in the state. Coal mining and lumbering, of course, tie in directly with most West Virginia railroads. Photos, maps, and illustrations tell the story in addition to history that links the various parts of West Virginia railroading into a coherent narrative.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads Volume 5 written by Thomas Dixon, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume in the WV Railroads series is a general history of the geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler type locomotives that were so prevalent during the West Virginia logging operations in the era from 1890s until the 1950s. Included are overview histories of each type of engine followed by chapters showing photos of the engines as they were being used in the woods in large and small logging operations.
Download or read book West Virginia Curiosities written by Rick Steelhammer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh your way through the pages of West VirginiaCuriosities, your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Mountain State has to offer!
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky written by Thomas W. Dixon Jr and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at mines, towns, trains, people that were involved in transportation of coal from mine to market on C&O in the period 1945-1960. Chapters include Background; Coal Fields Motive Power; Coal Fields Rolling Stock; C&O Coal Operations; Coal Towns; Mines & Tipples. Most photos are from C&O official files and illustrate every aspect of coal mining and transportation. Maps show branches and their relationship to whole scheme. Ideal for C&O fans, modelers, and those interested in the coal fields of Appalachia. If you have the C&OHS’s 1995 book C&O in the Coal Fields, this book is ALL NEW, and does not repeat the photos or data.
