Steam Trains: A Photographic Gallery: A Modern View of Yesterday's Railroads - Hardcover

James Bell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760322678 ISBN 13: 9780760322673

Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2006

Synopsis

Few images speak as clearly of a time and a place as a dramatic black-and-white photograph of an American steam locomotive powering through that storied era of railroad history. All the new photographs in this beautiful book meticulously recreate that original style, capturing the bygone age of steam rail against the settings of its heyday, including period architecture and other details. The result is the crisp, stunning quality of contemporary photography - reproduced in highest-quality duotone prints - of the iconic locomotives of yesteryear. Featured trains include the Milwaukee Road; the Cumbres and Toltec snowplow runs; the Cotton Belt 819 in Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois; the Savannah and Atlanta No. 750; the Frisco 1522 in Missouri; the Norfolk and Western 611 and 1218 in Georgia and Tennessee; the Union Pacific 3985 in Wyoming, Nebraska and Arkansas—these are just some of the historic runs and routes Steam Trains brings this era to life with its evocative photographs and accompanying narrative accounts of the locomotives that are still cherished today.

About this title

Review:

Simply outstanding - not to be missed by any colllection train buffs frequent. --Midwest Book Review

About the Author:

James P. Bell is an experienced photojournalist and avowed railroad enthusiast. His articles have appeared in Railfan and Railroad over the past 15 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0760322678
• ISBN 13: 9780760322673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192