Steam & Thunder in the Timber by Michael Koch

Details:

First Edition, numbered 1954 and signed by the author.  Copyright 1979 by Michael Koch. Published by World Press, Denver, Colorado. 526 pages. 

A Saga of the Forest Railroads.

Chapters include:

Part I  Tools and Techniques

• In The Beginning
  
• Early Logging Practices
• Steam in the Timber
• Paul Bunyan's Iron Horses
• The Ingenuity of the Timbermen
• The End of an Era

Part II  The Geography of Forest Railroads

• New England and Eastern Canada
• The Middle Atlantic States
• The Lake States and Ontario
• The Central States
• The South
• The Rocky Mountains
• The Pacific Coast States and Nevada
• Western Canada and Alaska

Profusely illustrated throughout.  12 color "delineated paintings" and 22 "superlative line drawings" by renowned railroad artist Richard Ward.  

Estate sale item from a private collection, near mint condition. Not returnable.