Book, "Il Était une fois...collection nos Terroirs, nos raci - Lot 657

Book, "Il Était une fois...collection nos Terroirs, nos racines" - CPE Edition 2000 - 29 x 20 cm. Gironde & Landes at the beginning of the 20th century. "LES TRAMWAYS et LES TRAINS DES LANDES de GASCOGNE". 160 pages recounting the history and role of this secondary rail network, the conquest of this French desert, kilometers of desert and pine forests, a veritable adventure begun under the Second Empire, which enabled the movement of goods and people in regions where roads did not yet exist or were in an almost impassable state. Rich cartography, dated line by line. Tracks, companies, stations, locomotives, wagons, each line and station illustrated with period photos and postcards, Tramway & trains des Landes, Arcachon l'exotique, Americans & Canadians 1914-18, Cazaux-la Teste line, from Labouheyre departed 3 lines, from Morcenx..., from Laluque to St Girons, to Tartas, departing from Dax, timber railway, mine poles, telegraph poles, railway sleepers etc...