Main entry:
Fielder, Mildred.
Title & Author:
Railroads of the Black Hills / by Mildred Fielder.
Publication:
New York : Bonanza Books, [©1964]
Description:
175, [1] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).
Portfolio of glass plate photographs / William Henry Jackson -- The Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad, 1881-1930: Narrow gauge locomotives for Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad ; Dimensional statistics, Black Hills and Fort Pierre locomotive narrow gauge, 36" -- The Deadwood Central Railroad, 1888-1930: Narrow gauge locomotives for the Deadwood Central Railroad ; Dimensional statistics, Deadwood Central locomotives, narrow gauge, 36" -- The Burlington lines in the Black Hills, 1888-1964 -- The Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad, 1886-1903 ; 1903-1928 -- Chicago and North Western: Narrow gauge locomotives for Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley and Chicago and North Western ; Dimensional statistics, Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley and Chicago and North Western -- The Rapid Canyon Line, 1890-1947: Rapid Canyon Line standard gauge locomotives ; Rapid Canyon Line narrow gauge locomotives -- Finis.
Illustrations: William Henry Jackson: The Elkhorn came up the gulch east of Deadwood from Whitewood, Rapid City, and points beyond, passing the D & D Smelter -- The Grand Island and Wyoming Central (Burlington), Locomotive #302, approaching Spearfish Canyon -- Grand Island and Wyoming Central #302 going over Spearfish Falls near Savoy, in Spearfish Canyon, 1900 -- The Burlington engine, just visible as it rounds a curve in Spearfish Canyon, Black Hills, 1900 -- The Burlington Locomotive #346 along the southern edge of the Black Hills around 1900 -- Elkhorn narrow gauge Locomotive 209 and passenger car above Nevada Gulch, just before entering Terry -- Grand Island & Wyoming Central Engine 302 in Spearfish Canyon -- Elkhorn Engine 209 with a passenger car in Deadwood Gulch [2 views] -- Elkhorn narrow gauge Locomotive 209 and passenger car above Nevada Gulch just before entering Terry -- Elkhorn Locomotive #209 at the Sunset and Mogul Mines in Nevada Gulch, some miles beyond Terry -- The Elkhorn Engine #212 between Deadwood Gulch and Portland, 1900, coming from a steep cut -- Panoramic view of Deadwood, 1909 -- F E & M V Engine #209 at the Crown Hill Station, highest point on the line, and end of the line for the Elkhorn trains -- The Burlington and Missouri River's standard gauge Grand Island & Wyoming Central line coming from its Spearfish run -- The Elkhorn passenger train, Engine #208, around 1902, descending around the side of the hill above Pluma on its way to Central City from Lead City.
Illustrations: Freighting in the Black Hills with ox teams; Mrs. Canoteson, Rapid City, was one of the few women "bullwhackers" in the business -- Three trains at Lead, South Dakota: Deadwood Central Engine #497 pulling one car on the lowest level; a Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley train on bridge, Engine #208; and a Homestake Mining Company ore train on the high trestle above the others -- Black Hills & Fort Pierre Railroad at Giant Bluff, Elk Canyon / Grabill, 1890 -- Deadwood Central Railroad in Gold Run Gulch, 1889, Howing No. 1, Little Betsy locomotive / Grabill, 1889 -- Lead City hose team, around or before 1900 / Patrique, Lead South Dakota -- Champion Chinese hose team of America, who won at Deadwood, Dakota Territory, July 4, 1888 / Grabill -- Last coach leaving Rapid City for Deadwood, 1890 -- Bond issued by Lisbon Syndicate Company, 1909, for Rapid City, Black Hills & Western Railroad Company, with coupons on verso.
Maps: Deadwood Central Railway, 1899-1930 & Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley Railway, 1890-1928 -- Black Hills & Fort Pierre Railway, 1881-1930 -- Bird's eye view of Black Hills & Ft. Pierre, 1892, Lead to Piedmont -- Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad, after being rebuilt in 1910 -- The Deadwood Central Railroad map, 1921 -- The Grand Island and Wyoming Central Railroad, 1921 -- Burlington lines in the Black Hills between 1910 and 1930 [again on p. 145] -- Chicago & North Western Railroad, in the northern Blacks Hills, South Dakota, between 1891-1928.
Subject:
Railroads Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) History.
Chemins de fer Black Hills (Dak. du S. et Wyom.) Histoire.
Railroads.
United States Black Hills.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 56128
Call No.: ID:90-B4536
Status: Available
