prone to enthusiasms….
I tend to consider my railfan tendencies an addiction.
Excellent picture book, with a fine narrative history of the Missabe Road, its predecessors, and their clients. I know this material fairly well, but Leopard managed to occasionally surprise me.
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Along the Rail Line
Bookworm Alley
Posted on
February 11th 2010
Drawings of old mining–mostly railroad, actually–equipment. Really quite a wonderful thing. Seems to contain everything blue-print like they had around the office when it was compiled; a few of the pages really don’t fit.
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Along the Rail Line
Bookworm Alley
Posted on
March 3rd 2008
The entire nation had the Railroad Fever in 1869. Michigan was nursing two outbreaks: Promoters were raising money to build a more direct line (an “air line”) between Detroit and Chicago which would roughly follow the route of the Chicago Road, and actual construction was occurring for a line connecting Jackson and Grand Rapids. Both remain interesting, for different reasons.
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Along the Rail Line
Dear Old Macalester
History Scrapbook
Mitten State
Posted on
October 17th 2007
Always the same short song, but so many ways to carry the tune.
Filed under Along the Rail Line Posted on November 8th 2003
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