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Railroads of the Columbia River Gorge
Contributor(s): Burkhardt, D. C. Jesse (Author)

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ISBN: 0738529168     ISBN-13: 9780738529165
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
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Published: August 2004
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Annotation: Before the rails were up and running along the stunning Columbia River landscape of Oregon and Washington, 19th-century westward travelers faced treacherous conditions. Many emigrants perished before reaching Oregon Territory. Only recently have railways bridged the wide gap formed millions of years ago. Today the gorge remains the major commercial route through the Cascades, and the tracks are a shining example of human engineering and a mecca for rail enthusiasts.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Transportation | Railroads - Pictorial
- Transportation | Railroads - History
Dewey: 385.097
LCCN: 2004107312
Series: Images of Rail
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.5" W x 9.28" L (0.65 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest
- Geographic Orientation - Oregon
- Geographic Orientation - Washington
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 321
 
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Before the rails were up and running along the stunning Columbia River landscape of Oregon and Washington, 19th-century westward travelers faced treacherous conditions. Many emigrants perished before reaching Oregon Territory. Only recently have railways bridged the wide gap formed millions of years ago. Today the gorge remains the major commercial route through the Cascades, and the tracks are a shining example of human engineering and a mecca for rail enthusiasts. Mount Hood, Union Pacific, and Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains seem to connect in a magical way with the land, blasting out of raw, rock-faced tunnels, gliding under bridges, snaking along the edges of towns and along the big river, always rolling somewhere distant, symbolic of our national connectedness and our restlessness."

Contributor Bio(s): Burkhardt, D. C. Jesse: - Author D.C. Jesse Burkhardt is the editor of the White Salmon Enterprise, a weekly newspaper in White Salmon, Washington, and has published three previous books on Pacific Northwest railroads. In Railroads of the Columbia River Gorge, Burkhardt takes us on an unforgettable journey through nearly 200 archival photographs of the region's first steam locomotives, wrecks, floods, snowstorms, and the entrepreneurs who changed the landscape.
 
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