Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California: Volume 3

More on the Northern Roads

David F. Myrick

• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780874177015
• eBook ISBN:
  9780874170160
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Valuable as these volumes are in relation to railroad operations in Nevada and California, their usefulness as authoritative reference sources embraces a much broader scope. Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California is as much a history of the region as it is a study of the railroads. The principal mines and mills and their production are scrupulously detailed, together with the personalities who created them.

The final volume in the complete history of Nevada and Eastern California railroads David Myrick's monumental railroad histories have become essential reference works for railroaders, historians, and hobbyists. Volume III contains additional information about the northern roads, including some not covered in previous volumes, and about developments since the publication of the first two volumes in the railroads of the region. It provides new facts gleaned from the correspondence of Collis P. Huntington, one of the builders of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. It also covers roads connected with the lumber industry and the construction of electric power plants, and Southern Pacific branch lines, including some that never advanced beyond surveys.

INDEX

Italic page numbers refer to photographs and maps.

—A—

Abbay, Fred T., 55, 58, 305–6

Adams, H. M., 59

Agassiz, Alexander E. R., 341

A. G. Barnes Circus, 56

Ahrens, A. C., 206

Aiazzi, Dave, 44

Albus, Paul C., 369

Aldrich, Gene, 289

Allen, Grant S., 178–79

Almanor, Lake, 267, 269, 272, 283, 285, 345–46, 347

Almanor Railroad Company, 271–72, 279, 280, 281

Alturas (Calif.): railroad service cartoon, 111; and Goose Lake and Southern Railway, 73; and Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, 97, 98, 99, 101; Odd Fellows parade, 109

Alturas Subdivision, 71

American Valley: lumber business in, 203, 205; population of, 155; and Quincy Lumber Company, 157; and Quincy Western Railway, 152; special trains to, 154; view of, 167; and Western Pacific Railroad, 151

A. M. Leach Railroads and Flume, 320–21, 320, 328, 329

Amtrak, 368–69, 371, 372

Andrea, Lucia D., 254

Anschultz, Philip F., 369

antitrust: legislation, 74; suits, 40

Archibald, A., 285

Argentine Central Railway, 241

Arizona, and Southern Pacific Railroad, 42–43

Arnell, Joseph, 242–43

Arnold, Medford R., 51, 54

Arnstein, S., 7

Astor (Nev.), 55, 56

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, 369

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, 2

Atthowe, Jack, 195

Atthowe Transportation Company, 196

Autinreith, F. A., 156, 157, 158

automobile, extended with flange wheels, 104

—B—

Bacher, Mrs. J. T., 176

Badt, M., 10

Bailey’s (Calif.), conversion of gauge, 110

Baker, G. W., 151

Baker, R. D., 99, 303

Baldwin, E. D., 194

Bally’s Hotel and Casino, 367, 368

B and H Moulding Company, 159

Band Mill, 120, 124, 140

Bannister, Colonel, 170

Barclay, A. J., 49, 52, 54, 283

Barlow, O. M., 57

Barnes, James R., 56

Barradas, A. J., 74

Barrington, Dick, 206

Barton, O. L., 232

Barton, Orren, 232

Basalt (Nev.), 79, 80, 81

Bates, George, 139

Bayshore Cutoff, 40

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Fernley and Lassen Railway Company
• Modoc Northern Railway and Goose Lake and Southern Railway
• Carson and Colorado Railway
• The Final Years of the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway
• Surprise Valley Railway
• Sierra Valleys Railway
• Boca and Loyalton Railroad
• Quincy and Eastern Railroad Company, Quincy Western Railway Company, Quincy Railroad Company
• Indian Valley Railroad
• Spanish Peak Lumber Company
• Quincy Lumber Company, F. S. Murphy Lumber Company
• Massack Timber and Lumber Company
• Sloat Lumber Company
• Nibley-Stoddard Lumber Company
• Davies Box and Lumber Company, California Fruit Exchange—Graeagle, Davies-Johnson Lumber Company—Calpine
• Feather River Lumber Company
• Clover Valley Lumber Company
• Red River Lumber Company
• Northern California Railroad Company
• Fruit Growers Supply Company
• Lassen Lumber and Box Company
• Feather River Railway
• Swayne Lumber Company, Butte and Plumas Railway
• Feather River Power Plant Railroads
• Lake Almanor and Caribou Powerhouse
• Bucks Lake Railroad
• Oro Electric Corporation: Proposed Railroad to Power Plant on Yellow Creek
• Recent Developments in Nevada Railroads
• Index