Rail-Trails West

Author: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899974899
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
In this newest edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona's 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural world with the railroad's industrial past, like Nevada's Historic Railroad Hiking Trail, which passes through five massive tunnels to reach Hoover Dam. Every trip has a detailed map, directions to the trailhead, and information about parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities. Many of the level rail-trails are suitable for walking, jogging, bicycling, inline skating, wheelchairs, and horses.

Rails from the West

Author: Helen Hinckley Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

Rescue by Rail

Author: Roger Pickenpaugh
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803237209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A chronicle of the massive Federal troop movement by rail, which sent reinforcements to a besieged Chatanooga in 1863, details the strategic importance of the Union's superiority in technology and mobility over the forces of the Confederates under Longstreet. UP.

Ties, Rails, and Telegraph Wires

Author: Dale Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940527925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Ties, Rails, and Telegraph Wires combines literary memories, historic research, and knowledge of railroad operations with historic photographs to celebrate railroads in Montana and the West. It describes the lives and tasks of railroad workers and the services provided by the railroad to communities and the region.

Prairie Rails

Author: Robert P. Olmsted
Publisher: McMillan Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description

East Vs. West Showdown

Author: Joseph Alig
Publisher: Cartech
ISBN: 9781934709757
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The East Coast vs. West Coast looks both define the era, however differently. The similarities and differences between the varying cars were a point of contention for many years, and the history of the era is celebrated in this new book.

Retribution Rails

Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544918886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.

Rail-Trails West

Author: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 089997709X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
In this edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona's 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural world with the railroad's industrial past, like Nevada's Historic Railroad Hiking Trail, which passes through five massive tunnels to reach Hoover Dam. Every trip has a detailed map, directions to the trailhead, and information about parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities. Many of the level rail-trails are suitable for walking, jogging, bicycling, inline skating, wheelchairs, and horses.

Rails Through the Bush

Author: Jeff Austin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980392227
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description

The Sunset Route

Author: Carrot Quinn
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0593133285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train—a beautiful memoir about forgiveness, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of nature, perfect for fans of Wild or Educated. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • “An urgent read. A courageous life. Quinn’s story burns through us and bleeds beauty on every page.”—Noé Álvarez, author of Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging among straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and feed herself by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling adventure and freedom, but still she was haunted by the ghosts of her lonely and traumatic childhood. The Sunset Route is a powerful and brazenly honest adventure memoir set in the unseen corners of the United States—in the Alaskan cold, on trains rattling through forests and deserts, as well as in low-income apartments and crowded punk houses—following a remarkable protagonist who has witnessed more tragedy than she thought she could ever endure and who must learn to heal her own heart. Ultimately, it is a meditation on the natural world as a spiritual anchor, and on the ways that forgiveness can set us free.