Trackside in Search of Virginia and West Virginia Steam with August Thieme (Trackside #93)

Cloth with dust jacket, 8.5x11, 128 glossy pages, color photos throughout. 2012. From the photographer/author of "The Norfolk & Western ... as I knew it!" (isbn 9780970479402) "While this book has a small taste of big mainline steam, it is devoted to those small steam roads in Virginia and West Virginia that continued to operate in the 1950s well after most other roads had turned to diesel. Photographer Thieme gave special emphasis to logging roads, the operations of which are illustrated in colorful detail." Subject railroads include Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt, Eastern Gas and Fuel, USAR Ft Eustis, David M Lea, Tredegar Iron, Old Dominion Iron, VGN, VA Electric & Power, Olin Mathieson, Meadow River, Mower, Cass, Elk River, BC&G, W. M. Ritter, Ely-Thomas, Cherry River Boom, Babcock Coal...