Minnesota'S Logging Railroads [Audiobook] download free by Frank Alexander King
- Listen audiobook: Minnesota'S Logging Railroads
- Author: Frank Alexander King
- Release date: 2003/11/10
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780816640843
- Rating: 9.46 of 10
- Votes: 633
- Review by: Naomi Wenger
- Review rating: 9.47 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/4
- Duration: 2H38M38S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 SLS, MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, Vorbis, MPEG4 (compression BZ2, BZ, 7Z, TZ, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M41S (3.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: During the heyday of lumberjacks and sawmills, railroads such as the Duluth and Northern Minnesota and the Alger-Smith enabled logging companies to break away from the traditional mode of transportation (floating logs downriver) and its shortfalls (logjams and winter freezes). Frank King traces this rich history from its beginnings in 1886 to the railroads' disappearance around 1937 when the last of the giant sawmills closed down. King profiles every logging railroad in Minnesota and examines all aspects of their operations, including locomotives such as the geared Shays and Heislers, McGiffert log loaders, Russel log cars, dump trestles, hot ponds, logging camp life, railroad finances, and the impact on communities as timber supplies ran out and lumbering and sawmill operations shut down, causing thousands to lose their jobs. Heavily illustrated throughout, Minnesota Logging Railroads contains maps, photographs, postcards, engineering drawings, and railroad memorabilia such as timetables, passes, fare receipts, and freight tariffs. The appendixes comprehensively list the state's logging railroads, locomotive rosters, and railroad and lumber company names.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Railway Transport Industries, Trains & Railways, Transport Industries, History Of Engineering & Technology, Biography: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 32.97 USD
- Dimensions: 216x279x13.21mm
- Weight: 712.14g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Minnesota, United States
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