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American narrow gauge railroads

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Stanford University Press, 1990 - Transportation - 580 pages
This is the first comprehensive, extensively illustrated account of the growth and decline of American narrow gauge railroading, a singular and still not fully understood episode in the history of American transportation.

  

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TitleAmerican narrow gauge railroads
AuthorGeorge Woodman Hilton
Editionillustrated
PublisherStanford University Press, 1990
ISBN0804717311, 9780804717311
Length580 pages
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