num_pages: 528
description: A 150-year history of logging railroads stretching from the Kennebec River in Maine to Puget Sound and from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska and Canada. Part I chronicles tools and techniques of the early logging industry prior to the advent of the steam engine. Part II covers the geography of forest railroads, divided into eight regions encompassing American forests from New England and Eastern Canada to Western Canada and Alaska.
language: English
title: Steam and Thunder in the Timber: Saga of the Forest Railroads
publisher: World Press