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White River Productions. Hardcover. New. This title generally has one large image per page. As this is a larger format book, the images are quite large. The photographs are sharp so there is a lot of detail in them to investigate. There are a number of locomotive illustrations in color which are very nice to give you an idea of how colorful the early locomotives were. Each one seems to be its own work of art. It was a glorious period that has been termed the days of ""wooden cars and iron men."" Today it is difficult to even comprehend the tremendous amounts of energy, manpower and money that went into constructing the Denver & Rio Grande into and across the Rocky Mountains. The courage, determination and sheer guts of such an undertaking are impressively apparent today on the two remaining portions of three-foot gauge trackage out of Durango, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico. By 1883, William Jackson Palmer's ""Narrow Gauge Transcontinental"" mainline stretched 771 miles from Denver, Colorado to… Read More