| Description |
xvi pages, 103 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Photography is chiefly by Lucius Beebe. |
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Descriptive text on versos facing the plates. |
| Summary |
Even better than "High Iron" this magnificent book of over one hundred striking railroad photographs will win new honors for Mr. Beebe as a photographer and as a historian of a great American institution. It is a volume which offers continual pleasure and excitement to the growing legions of rail-fans and photographers as well as to those amateurs of the American scene who have thrilled to a distant engine whistle or the thunder of exhaust as the redball merchandise rolls into the main. Here are action shots of varnish trains and hotshot freights, of famous flyers and lowly locals, of railroad workers and yards, of terminals and servicing scenes. The infectious gusto of Mr. Beebe's accompanying explanatory pages carries to the reader an unforgettable impression of the drama of railroading as seen through the knowing eyes of a confirmed enthusiast. No one can examine the photographs in this book -- the great majority of which are the author's own work -- without succumbing to the romance and appeal of one of the most impressive machines ever built by man. Here is a book to be treasured as a lasting record of these Highliners and of the legend of American railroading. |
| Subject |
Railroad trains -- United States -- Pictorial works.
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Railroad trains. (OCoLC)fst01431189
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
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| ISBN |
0517022400 |
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9780517022405 |
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