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The mccloud railway reporting mark mcr was a class iii railroad operated around mount shasta, california. Don balls book shows in brilliant photography a railroad and a nation in its prime. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. A twovolume history of the railroads of the monadnock region has arrived at the historical society of cheshire county and book stores in the region. The murphy branch of the western north carolina railroad delivered thousands of mountaineers from the wilderness of their landlocked hills. Some are set in the real world, but in a version where a past event turned out differently.
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