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.
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Cary Franklin Poole is the former associate dean of students at Mars Hill College, where he taught more than a dozen sessions of "Whistletops in Western North Carolina" for the school's Elderhostel program. He lives in San Angelo, Texas.
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"History of the Carolina & North-Western Railway" is an immensely- interesting and informative work.Matthew C. Bumgarner, a lifelong rail enthusiast, examines 140 years of the rise and fall and rise again of this resilient shortline railway, which once had nearly 150 miles of track through North and South Carolina. From its prosperous days in the early 1900s to its final years in the late 1940s, the C & N-W carried everything from people and freight to logs and livestock. Bumgarner writes with warmth and concision--a prose style that marvelously matches the book's crisp maps and large, historic photographs. Rail fans--especially rail historians--will love this vital work.
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