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== 5 overdue books from PSU ==

The PSU library was trashed by vandals in April 2024.   I checked these books out a few weeks before the long-term closure, and kept them "overdue" after the library was closed for repairs (supposedly until fall term), because I was using them for my research, and did not want them to be stored inaccessibly. 

Well, ooopsie.  The library is open and accessible now, and they want their books back.  Here's some notes:

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=== Stability of superconductors ===
 Dresner, Lawrence // Call Number: QC611.95 .D74 1995




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=== Superconducting magnets ===
 Wilson, Martin N. // Call Number: QC761.3 .W54 1983




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=== Parallel destinies : Canadian-American relations west of the Rockies ===
 edited by John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates // Call Number: E183.8 .C2 P36 2002

 . {{ attachment:RailmapD.png | | width=300px }}

 . page 150 ref 62 W. Kay Lamb, History of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
  . I bought this book used; no reference to the Pacific Express service to Vancouver B.C. and Portland

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=== The Canadian Pacific Railway and the development of western Canada ===
 Eagle, John A. // Call Number: HE2810 .C2 E14 1989

 . The CPR in British Columbia
 . p139 1905 agreemnent between CPR and Corbin's Spokane International Line, running from Spokane to Kingsgate, where it met a 12 mile branch from Kingsgate to Yahk on the CPR Crows Nest line
 . rail distance between Minneapolis and Spokane only slightly greater than the Great Northern Railroad, and 20 miles shorter than the Northern Pacific
 . opened for business November 1906
 . west of Spokane to Portland on Southern Pacific's Oregon Railway and Navigation line


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=== Inland Empire; D.C. Corbin and Spokane ===
  Fahey, John // Call Number: HE2754 .C6 F3

 .p113  Spokane Falls and Northern railroad on Columbia River east bank from Marcus, Stevens County north of Kettle Falls and Spokane
  .  former site under the reservoir behind the Grand Coolee dam, East Marcus still there.
  . Northport Washington, Nelson BC, NOT the eastern path from Spokane to Yahk
 .p214 Corbin contracted the 140 mile line at $30K stock an $30K bonds at par per mile
 .p215 Map of Spokane International Railway, Spokane through Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry to border crossing at Eastport
 .p216 Sawmill at Bonner's Ferry made timbers for a 5 span 750 foot trestle over the Kootenai River
 .p216 Spokane International connected with the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.) | Great Northern ]] at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonners_Ferry,_Idaho | Bonner's Ferry ]], and at Spokane to
  . the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Pacific_Railway | Northern Pacific Railroad ]]
  . the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Portland_and_Seattle_Railway | Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway ]]
  . the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Railroad_and_Navigation_Company | Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company ]]
 .p218 '''Throughout its operation, the Spokane International was to be a freight carrier without significant passenger mileage.  The railway pulled one passenger coach a day, as a courtesy ... on the average run there were ten passengers --- eight on passes'''
 .p218 '''The Spokane International abandoned its Spokane passenger station in October 1915'''
 .p218 After the Canadian Pacific ... took control ... fell into disrepair
  . this suggests that the immigrant route was actually via Vancouver BC and south through Seattle
 .p219 but 1916 ... "and through passengers to Calgary" ... seems contradictory
 .p221  [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@49.51,-114.66,1975m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu | vast coal seam ]]  "15 miles" east of Fernie British Columbia