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Golden West Books. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First. Hardcover. 0870950630 . Boards clean and tight, corners sharp. Inner pages unmarked. Dust jacket is price-clipped. No further defects, clean, shiny cover now contained in mylar cover. ; 1 x 11.2 x 8.8 Inches; Southern California's Mount Lowe Railway lived up to its title;The Most Scenic Mountain Railway in the World. In its short trackage from Altadena to Alpine Tavern, its rails climbed 3,130 feet in 5.84 miles, thus constituting an engineering marvel. This book chronicles in word and picture the building of the electric railway into Rubio Canyon, the construction of the great incline on a 62 percent grade, and the narrow guage trolley from Echo Mountain to Alpine Tavern. The Alpine Division's tracks followed the natural contour of the mountainside, over 18 trestles and around 127 curves. 425 illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. .
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Mount Lowe: The Railway in the Clouds Hardcover - 1976
by Charles Seims
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- Title Mount Lowe: The Railway in the Clouds
- Author Charles Seims
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Revised Edition
- Publisher Golden West Books, Pasadena, CA
- Date 1976-06
- ISBN 9780870950636
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Mount Lowe The Railway in the Clouds
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