Niles Canyon Railways by Henry Luna

Niles Canyon Railways by Henry Luna

All aboard for this photographic journey through the unique railroad history of Niles Canyon, near the city of Fremont. The melodic wail of the steam whistle first echoed off these canyon walls in 1866 when the Western Pacific Railroad laid track into Niles as part of a planned route from San Jose to Sacramento. That was three years before the transcontinental route from Sacramento to Omaha was completed in May 1869. Four months after the driving of the Golden Spike that joined the eastern and western United States by rail, the connecting route from Sacramento to Oakland through Niles Canyon was finished--the very last leg of a rail route that truly joined the Atlantic to the Pacific waters for the first time.

Luna, Henry: - The association has gathered over 200 images and provides learned commentary to document the canyon s historic railways, the famous bandits and silent-era movie stars who once roamed there, and the unusual assortment of trains that makes up the present Niles Canyon Railway.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780738529837
ISBN 10	0738529834
Titel	Niles Canyon Railways
Autor	Henry Luna
Serie	Images Of Rail
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Arcadia Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-07-06
Seitenanzahl	128
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.