Rails That Climb, A Narrative History Of The Moffat Road

BOLLINGER, EDWARD T. [EDITED BY WILLIAM C. JONES]

Publication: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1979, Golden

First edition thus. 4to. A new improved edition to the one published in 1950. Dark green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, pictorial front endpapers, vii [1], 323 [5] pp., frontispiece, acknowledgments, preface, editor's foreword, illustrated, (mostly from photographs), 350 photographs, six color plates, maps, locomotive statistics, foldling map in pocket affixed to the rear pastedown sheet, two pages of corrections and additions, DNW employee time tables for 1804 and 1911, two-sided, 25" x 38" folded map that includes height profile. bibliography and sources, index. A wonderful history of the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway, the railroad called the Moffat Road. Fine, bright, copy in dust jacket with light wear to the head of spine and a few tiny nicks and rubs to the top edge of the front cover.