WHITE GOLD RAILROAD PLASTER CITY NARROW GAUGE-BY CHARLES M O\'HERIN-2008
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WHITE GOLD RAILROAD PLASTER CITY NARROW GAUGE-BY CHARLES M O\'HERIN-2008:
$49.99
8.5x11, paperback, 184 glossy pages, color and b/w inages throughout, maps, charts, rosters. \"This book is about the last private industrial railroad operating in the U.S. Here\'s the interesting history and unique business story of the Plaster City Narrow Gauge railroad, with facts and pictorial evidence of its rolling stock, locomotives, related gypsum mining, structures, and Environment of its operation. The railroad\'s history begins in 1922, during the era of steam locomotives. The transition to diesel power is covered fully. What makes this book a fascinating story are the details behind the original discovery of gypsum, its basis for creating a business venture, and the progression of the railroad through three corporate owners. Also provided is a great pictorial display of an interesting if not unique inventory of the railroad\'s rolling stock and motive power that did and does operate on its rails. \"The Plaster City railroad operates over 26 miles end-to-end and has always had only one purpose: haul raw gypsum from a quarry to a processing plant. The location of the gypsum quarry, processing and manufacturing plant, and railroad is in Imperial Valley, California, which was developed in the early 1900s and grew to be an agricultural giant by end of the Great Depression (circa 1939). This history is full of details that will be of special and general interest to railroad modelers, hobbyists, enthusiasts, and historians. Many of the photographs have not been previously published. The book includes lists, tables, graphics, and a bibliography.\"
WHITE GOLD RAILROAD PLASTER CITY NARROW GAUGE-BY CHARLES M O\'HERIN-2008:
$49.99