The Rainbow Route, An Illustrated History Of The Silverton Railroad, The Silverton Northern Railroad, And The Silverton, Gladstone & Northerly Railroad

ROBERT E. AND CARL A. SKOWRONSKI SLOAN

Publication: Sundance Limited, 1975, Denver

First edition, first printing. Limited to 3,000 copies, of which this is copy 01287, signed by the authors. Quarto. Quarter gilt spine and color pictorial boards, titles stamped in white on the front cover and in black on the spine, flowers in color on front endpapers, map on rear fly leaf and pocket containing a map on rear pastedown sheet, 416 pp., acknowledgments, foreword, double column, illustrated mostly from photographs, many in color, portraits, maps, locomotive roster, scale drawings, bibliography, index. Tells the story of three small narrow-gauge railroads with an aggregate length of less than 50 miles, which operated for all too brief a period of time in the harsh, but magnificent mountain canons and high sub-alpine country of southwestern Colorado. They met a need that the aggressive Denver and Rio Grande Railroad did not fill, which was to maintain the profitability of some 20 mines during the 55 years they were in existence. A beautiful book and a remarkable look at history. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.

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