Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains Vol 1 Cold Mountain

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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains Vol 1 Cold Mountain Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains Vol 1 Cold MountainCold Mountain, Black Mountain and White TopBy Thomas FettersCopyright 2007Hard Cover with dust jacket Reflections from the lights on some photos.264 Balds & Sidewinders: Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountainsxii W.M. Ritterxiv William S. WhitingxvAlphabetical Listing of Operators in Vol. 1 Loggersxvii Railroadsxix Other Industrial OperationsxxList of MapsxxAlphabetical Listing of Locomotive RostersxxiiChapter 1 Logging Lines along the Virginia Border of North Carolina Northwestern North Carolina Counties: Surry; Yadkin; Allegheny; Wilkes and AsheMount Airy & Eastern (Mount Airy, N.C.)2 Kibler & Kay Lumber Co. Rosslyn Lumber Co. Sidney Bieber Co. Virginia & Mount Airy Railroad (3-foot gauge) Meadowfield Lumber Co. North Carolina & Virginia RailroadElkin & Allegheny Railroad (Elkin, N.C.)5Watauga & Yadkin River Railroad Co. (North Wilkesboro, N.C.)7 Grandin Lumber Co. Yadkin River Railroad Watauga Railway Co. Wilkes & Western RailroadGiant Lumber Co. (1907-1916)13 Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co. (Fleetwood, NC)14Selected Industrial Lines: North Carolina Granite Co. (Mount Airy; NC)15Chapter 2 Logging Lines of NorthEastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia NorthEastern Tennessee Counties: Johnson; Carter; Sullivan; Washington; Unicoi and Greene. SouthEastern Virginia Counties Washington; Smyth and Grayson.Abingdon Coal & Iron Railroad Co. (1887-1894)19 Virginia Western, Coal & Iron RR (1894-1898) Virginia-Carolina Railway (1898-1917) Virginia-Carolina & Southern Rwy. (1906-1912) Virginia-Carolina Railroad Co. (1917- ) Norfolk & Western (Abingdon Branch) (1917- )Marion & Rye Valley Railway Co. (1891-1904)24 Grayson Lbr. Co.-Virginia Southern (c1896-c1904)26 Marion & Rye Valley Railway (operating the Virginia Southern) (c1904- 1905)28 Marion & Rye Valley Railroad J.C. Campbell28 Fairwood Lumber Co. - J.C. Campbell29 United States Spruce Lumber Company (M&RV Railroad and the VS)29 Marion Extract Company, Teas, Viginia32 Marion & Rye Valley Railroad32 Woodson Lumber Company33 Virginia Southern (operating the M&RV)(1923-1933) 34 Switchback Scenic Route (1928-1931)34 Marion Brick Company (M&RV) (1933-1936)34 Iron Mountain Lumber Co. (Troutdale, VA)34Look & Lincoln (Marion, VA)35 Sugar Grove Lumber Co. (Sugar Grove, VA)35 Hassinger Lumber Co. (Konnarock, VA)39 The Virginia-Carolina & Southern Extension to Grassy Ridge40 The White Top Railway42 Virginia-Carolina Expansion43 Hassinger Railway Operations47 Branchlines47 Purchase of T.W. Thayer Narrow Gauge on Staight Branch51 The Last Branch Lines52 Summation55Douglas Land Company and Laurel River Lumber Company56 T.W. Thayer and Damascus Lumber Company57 Laurel Railway58 Whiting Mfg. Co. Operations near the Laurel River 59 Damascus Lumber and T.W. Thayer Lumber Operations East of Bethel, TN61 Thayer's Straight Mountain Branch63 The Hemlock, NC Branch of the Damascus Lumber Co.64 The End of the Laurel Railway64 Thayer's Straight Mountain Line64Hassinger Lumber Company's Straight Mountain Narrow Gauge Line65Whiting Manufacturing Co. (Elizabethton, TN)65 Whiting Manufacturing Co. (Abingdon, VA)66 Whiting Manufacturing Co. (Cold Spring, TN)67 Cutting the Tennessee Lbr. & Mfg. Lands68George M. Craig Lumber Co.69 Empire Lumber & Mining Co. Crandull & Shady Valley Railway Beaver Dam RR (of Tennessee) Beaver Dam RR (of Virginia) Empire Mining & Manufacturing Co. Smethport Extract Co. Tennessee Lumber & Manufacturing Co.Bristol Door & Lumber Co.73 Bristol, Elizabethton & North Carolina RR74 Virginia & Southwestern Railway74The R.E. Wood Lumber Co.77 Virginia & Southewestern Rwy. Co. (Buladeen Branch) James Strong Lumber Co. Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. Stony Creek Railroad James Strong Lumber Co.79 Rexford & Collins80 Peter McCain Lumber Co.80Willey Boom & Lumber Co. (Bluff City, TN)80 Holston Valley Railway (Bristol, TN)81 Morton, Lewis & Willey Co.82 M,L&W Neva, TN Operation83 Peter McCain Lbr. Co.: Bristol, TN Operations83 Peter McCain Lbr. Co.: Ruthton, TN Branch84 Peter McCain Lumber Closes84 Bristol Traction Co.84R.E. Wood Lumber Co. (Earhart, TN)84Watauga Extract Company (South Watauga, TN)84Brook Lumber Company (Taylor's Mine, TN)85Sanford & Treadway Lumber Co.86 Whiting Lumber Co. (near Elizabethton, TN)86Bradley Lumber Co. (Elizabethton, TN)87W.M. Ritter (Tiger Creek)87Pittsburgh Lumber Co.88 Booth & Flinn Laurel Fork RailwayWilliam Uptegrove & Brothers92 Uptegrove Lumber Co. American Cigar Box Lumber Co. The Uptegrove Logging Line at White Rock, TN92 Johnson City, Bakersville & Southern Railway94 The Unicoi Railway 94H.S. White Lumber Co.95Whiting mfg. Co. (Butler, TN)95 W.G. McCain Lumber Co.Greenville & Nolichuky RR (Greenville, TN)100 John Heilman Lumber Co. White Lumber Co.Chapter 3 The Tweetsie Region of North Carolina Mitchell (Avery); Watauga; Burke and Caldwell Counties, NCW.M. Ritter Lumber Co. (Pineola, NC)105 A.B. Camp Pineola Lumber & Trading Co. Linville River Railroad Linville River Lumber Co. Cranberry Iron & Coal Co. Linville River Railway Co.Sanford & Treadway (Newland, NC)108D. & H. McRae Lumber Co. (Linville, NC)109Toe River Lumber Co. (Montezuma, NC)109 Camp Mountain Timber Co. (Pineola, NC)110Caldwell & Northern Railroad110 Caldwell Land & Lumber Co. Chester & Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Carolina & North-Western Railway Carolina & Northwestern Railway Avery & North WesternWM. Ritter Lumber Company (Mortimer, NC)113Wilson Creek Lumber Co.115Hutton, Bourbonnais & Co. (Hutbow, NC)118Pencarden Lumber (Edgemont, NC)122Whiting Manufacturing Co. (Shulls Mills, NC)122 Boone Fork Lumber Co. Linville River Railway Cherokee Timber Co.123 Boone Fork Manufacturing Co.Wilson Lumber Co. 124 Wilson Land & Lumber Co. Lenoir & Linville Valley Caldwell & NorthernGlobe Lumber (Globe, NC)124Chapter 4 "Land of the Sky" Part 1 Loggers Along the CC&O North from Marion, North Carolina to Erwin, Tennessee (Clinchfield Loops Line) Mitchell; McDowell; Yancey; Madison and Buncombe Counties, North CarolinaTT. Adams Lumber Co. (Sevier, NC)135Chemical Wood Corporation (Altapass, NC)136 Mica Belt Railroad Meadows Co. "Humpback Mountain Line" Tennessee Eastman Co. Black Mountain Railroad (Burnsville, NC)141Scutt-Lambert Lumber Co.147Carolina Spruce Company (Pensacola, NC)148Brown Brothers Lumber (Eskota, NC)150 Murchison Lumber Co.Caney River Railway (Huntdale, NC)152 Wood Galloway Co. J.M. Buck Lumber Co. Doss Lumber Co. Carolina Lumber Co.E.L. Lewis Co. (Street, NC)155Selected Industrial Lines: Dibell Mineral Company (Penland, NC)155 "Hoot Owl Railroad" Carolina Mineral Co.McKenney Feldspar Mine (Boonford, NC)156Goug Rock Mine (Micaville, NC)156Harris Clay Mine & Processing Plant (Micaville, NC) 156Chapter 5 "Land of the Sky" Part 2 Loggers along the Southern Railway east from Asheville (Andrews Geyeser Route, Southern Railway)Bee Tree Lumber Co. (Swannanoa, NC)158 Craggy Lumber Co. Bee Tree Railroad Swannanoa RailroadNorth Fork Lumber Co. (Swannanoa, NC)165Perley & Crockett Co. (Black Mountain, NC)165 Dickey, Campbell & Co. Mount Mitchell RailroadUnited States Leather Co.178 F.W. Quinten Catawba Falls Railway (Old Fort, NC) Union Tanning Co. Noyes Land & Lumber Co.Buck Creek Lumber Company178Selected Industrial Lines:Hardaway Construction Co.-Lake James Project181Kistler, Lesh & Co.181 Burke Tanning Co. (Bridgewater & Morganton, NC) International Shoe Co.Chapter 6: "Land of the Sky" Part 3 Loggers along the French Broad River North from Ashville (Western North Carolina Paint Rock Division: Southern Railway)French Broad Lumber Co. (Cauley's Creek, NC)184Laurel River & Hot Springs RR (Hot Springs, NC) 184North Carolina Land & Timber Co.186 Laurel River Logging Co. (Bunion, NC) (1899-1909) 187 Laurel River Logging Co. (1909-1920)187 Madison County Railway Co. (1913-c1924)189 Curry Brothers Lumber Co. (1915-1924)190 Griffith Lumber Co. (1916-1926)191 Mill Creek Valley Railroad (1917-c1924)191 Hutchinson Lumber Co. (1918-1924)191 French Broad Railroad (1919-1923)192 Broad River Lumber Co. (1919-1924)192 Andrew Gennett192 Broad River Lumber/French Broad Railway193 Griffith Lumber Co.194 R.W. Mayer, Contractor (1925-c1929)194Patterson Lumber Company (Paint Rock, NC)195Boice Hardwood Co. (Hartford, TN, Harmon Den NC)197Selected Short Line Railroads: Asheville & Craggy Mountain RR (Asheville, NC) 201 Craggy Mountain Railway Asheville Street Railroad Co. Asheville & Northern Railway Sunset Mountain Gravity Railway Co. Asheville & Weaverville Railway & Power Co. Asheville & Craggy Mountain Railroad Asheville & Loop Line Railway Asheville Rapid Transit Co. Asheville & East Tennessee Railroad East Tennesse & North Carolina Sunset Mountain RailwayChapter 7: Transylvania: Loggers along the French Broad River West of Hendersonville Henderson, Transylvania and Jackson CountiesHendersonville & Brevard Railway, Telephone & Telegraph Co.207 Henderson & Brevard Railroad The Transylvania Railroad Co. (Henderson, NC) Southern Railway Norfolk Southern RailwayCarr Lumber Co.210 (Pisgah Forest and Etowah, NC)Brevard Tannery Co. (Pisgah Forest, NC)214Gloucester Lumber Co. (Rosman, NC)222 Rosman Tanning Extract Co.Shaffer Lumber Co. (Rosman, NC, 1910-1920)235Moltz Lumber Co. (Lake Toxaway, NC) 237Buchanon & Dunn "Dummy Line" (Cashiers, NC)240 Appendix A Appalachian Lumber Company242 The Solitary Mountain Logging Railroad of South CarolinaAppendix B The Anatomy of a Lumber Company 249 The bankruptcy Inventory of Brook Lumber Co., Taylor's Mine, TennesseeBibliography251Index
This trip back into the exciting days of logging railroads in the southwestern part of Virginia, the northwestern part of North Carolina and the northEastern part of Tennessee uncovers an amazing number of long forgotten railways, tram-roads, and narrow gauge lines, as well as many ghost towns in the Southern mountains that thrived at first then faded with the passing of the logging industry. Every conscious of economy, the logging men utilized nearly every possible gauge to get into the forests: three and a half foot, three foot, and two foot were used, the latter being the only example known in the South.This volume connects the stories of the Pennsylvania, Ohioans, and Minnesotans who found the Southern states ripe for exploration after the timber in their own areas had been cut out, and how they went for the high ground of Mount Rogers in Virginia, Mount Mitchell in North Carolina and Mount Sassafras in South Carolina, each the highest peak in the respective state. This called for geared locomotives and the area abounded with Lima Shays, Heislers, and Climax machines that could tackle the steep grades and negotiate rough and curvy temporary trackage.All pictures are of the actual item. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us.
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