REPORT MADE TO THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD

Published by D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 23 Murray and 27 Warren Street, New York, 1871

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Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.Bartleby's Books, ABAA

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Black lettered buff paper wrappers; front wrapper detached, rear wrapper lacking, soiling and chipping to edges, several text pages loose. Ex-lib., with stamp of the Bureau of Railway Economics. 27 cm. 24 pp., one chart, one page of patterns for Baldwin's Locomotives for Narrow-Gauge Railroads with a photo montage of six examples laid down on the page; plus 5 plates (including one folding). A tender copy. Gen. Buell, as Chief Engineer, made the case for the adoption of the three feet six gauge over the four feet eight and one-half inch gauge for the railroad's line from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean.

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Bibliographic details

Title
REPORT MADE TO THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD
Author
Buell, Gen'l. G.P. (Chief Engineer)
Publisher
D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 23 Murray and 27 Warren Street, New York
Publication year
1871
Binding
Soft cover
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