The Virginian Railway by Reid, H - 1961

Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1961. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (inscription to previous owner on one of the beginning fly leaves, pages otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has scuffing and overall light shelf wear with small tears. Price clipped front flap). Green boards with stamped design and lettering on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, bw illustrated end pages, 208 pages : illustrations, tables, folded map. "To the remote, unlikely mountain fastness of Deepwater, W. Va., came the man with the white mustache in 1902 on a visit that would change the Kanawha River sawmill hamlet forever. For there was bituminous coal, millions of tons of it, beneath the stony ridges and wooded valleys where this stranger from the East walked. A lot of folks suspected as much, but Henry Huttleston Rogers was different. Intimate as Rockefeller and Harriman, as well as a self-made multimillionaire himself, Rogers came and saw and then constructed a 30-million-dollar railroad out of his own pocket. His Virginian Railway was virtually a single-purpose property, designed and built to roll coal to tidewater in the heaviest trains over the shortest and most easily graded line money could buy." --From inside of jacket.