Backwoods Railroads: Branchlines & Shortlines of Western Oregon
Reviews
"This [BACKWOODS RAILROADS] is a fascinating profile of a fragile web of tracks and trains that will surprise even many longtime residents of Oregon." -- The Oregonian, July 24, 1994
"BACKWOODS RAILROADS is a must-have for railroad buffs. It's also a book with a great deal to offer to the general reader. Its discussion of types of loads hauled, volumes hauled, lost routes, and threatened routes is, in many ways, a detailing of the economic and social health of western Oregon." -- Salem Statesman Journal, August 19, 1994
"Burkhardt, at 42, is too young to have experienced the era when the shorts and branches were an indispensable link in the economy, but he writes of them with charming nostalgia in this handsomely illustrated book." -- Tacoma News Tribune, March 25, 1995
"The text is a readable mix of fact and sentiment ... This volume is handsome as well as informative." -- Trains Magazine, November 1994