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Author:Charles Seims
Title:Mount Lowe
Subtitle:The Railway In The Clouds
Publisher:  Golden West Books
Country:USA
Date:1976
Format:Hardcover
Class Number:385.60979493
Genre:Transport, History
ISBN-10:0870950754
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234 pages 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches

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27th Jul 2021
 Southern California’s Mount Lowe Railway, for nearly 40 years, lived up to its title “The Most Scenic Mountain Railway in the World.” Its short trackage from Altadena to Alpine Tavern, rising over 3,130 feet in only 5.84 miles, constituted an engineering marvel in the midst of scenic grandeur, to which the story of its construction and operation lent color and interest.
In 1888, Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, inventor and financier, famous for bringing about the use of observation balloons by the Union Army in the Civil War, came to Southern California to retire. Lured by the mild climate, he settled in Pasadena at the foot of the rugged San Gabriel Mountains. The majestic mountains proved more challenging than restful, and it was not long before Lowe was moving rapidly toward another goal.
The idea of building an alpine railway into the San Gabriels was not a new one; but its translation into reality rested finally upon the coupling of Lowe’s imagination and drive with the brilliant engineering ability of David J. Macpherson. It was Macpherson who finally surveyed a practical route and so strongly convinced Lowe of its feasibility that the latter formed the Pasadena & Mount Wilson Railway for the purpose of constructing a line to the top of Mount Wilson. When their attempts to acquire a right-of-way to the summit of Mount Wilson were thwarted, Lowe and Macpherson, undeterred, chose to build to the crest of Echo Mountain.
Mount Lowe — The Railway in the Clouds by Charles Seims chronicles the result of their efforts, the Mount Lowe Railway, from the time of its original construction through the years in which it functioned as an integral part of the Pacific Electric System. This is a moving story of a man’s relentless struggle to keep expanding his mountain empire in the face of increasing debt and devastating destruction by the elements, and of his ultimate separation from the enterprise — which went on without him.
 


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