Steel Wheels Rolling: A Personl Journey of Railroad Photography (Masters of Railroad Photography Series, 2) - Hardcover

Parker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550463314 ISBN 13: 9781550463316

Publisher: Boston Mills Press, 2001

Synopsis

The second book in the Boston Mills Press Masters of Railroad Photography series presents the work of J. Parker Lamb -- from heart-stopping pans of Gulf, Mobile & Ohio FAs loping through the backwoods of Mississippi, to dramatic images of Missabi Road 2-8-8-4s slogging through the rain in their eleventh hour, and artful time exposures of slant-nosed Seaboard Es in the North Carolina night. Lamb is one of America's most talented and respected railroad photographers. His remarkable images have recorded early diesels in Alabama, Mississippi and the Carolinas, the end of steam in the American Midwest, and contemporary railroading from his home state of Texas to New England, California and Canada. From Steel Wheels Rolling Chapter 2, The Dawn of Diesel It was during a visit to the Boligee depot that I first encountered a locomotive of a different kind. The shiny, green and white Southern streamliner that called on Boligee that memorable 1939 day didn't smoke like regular engines. In fact, the shovel-nosed motor car and trailer assigned to the Meridian-Birmingham Vulcan was like nothing I'd seen before...The mysterious newcomer was the subject of great interest and prompted considerable discussion. My father's words that day echo still. "Son, someday all locomotives may be like this one."

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Review:

Some of the most outstanding images of railroading taken by J.P. Lamb during his 50-plus years of chasing trains... reproductions are bright and crisp.-- (11/01/2003)

About the Author:

J. Parker Lamb has been photographing America's railroads for more than half a century. His work has appeared in 49 books and numerous magazine feature articles. He is a recipient of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society's Fred A. and Jane R. Stindt Photography Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lamb earned his Ph.D. in 1961, and after a 40-year academic career at the North Carolina State University and the University of Texas, where he chaired the Department of Mechanical Engineering, he recently retired. He lives in Austin, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boston Mills Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1550463314
• ISBN 13: 9781550463316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176