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This follow-up to the MBI bestseller Classic American Railroads is a beautiful tribute to 15 additional railroads not included in the first volume. Focusing on the golden age of railroading between World War II and the early 1970s, this all-new book features the histories, locomotives, rolling stock, and memorabilia of railroads like the Delaware & Hudson; Erie Lackawanna; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio; St. Louis-San Francisco Railway; Maine Central; Nickle Plate Road; Southern Railway; Great Northern Railway; and others. Amazingly preserved color photography from the decades covered, along with archival black-and-white images, capture the legendary trains against scenic backdrops across the nation, while period print ads and brochures add a nostalgic element to the stories behind the railroads' passenger and freight operations.
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Boston Mills Press is proud to launch its Masters of Railroad Photography Series with this phenomenal collection of photographs and essays by Ted Benson. Benson has devoted much of the past 30 years to rail photojournalism and is widely acknowledged as one of the world?s top railway photographers. In One Track Mind he presents more than 200 of his finest black-and-white photographs on the topic of western railroading. Benson?s photographs speak to the railfan in all of us, with equal measures of timeless human interest and peak-action railroad imagery. Ted Benson has perhaps exceeded his own aspiration, to create a collection of rail photography full of rare, unexpected pleasures . . . high drama spiced with quiet moments of reflection. These are qualities the reader will find on every page of One Track Mind.
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Now the MBI bestselling hardcover, Railroads Across America, is available in a softbound edition! This visually engaging history is neatly arranged by eight regions to present the grand saga of railroading in the U.S. and Canada-from the earliest days of steam power through the diesel era and today's freight and passenger operations. Pictorial History of America's Railroads examines the lines, the trains, and the people who built the North American railroad industry.
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Fredrickson can reel off unique stories about R.B. Lewis, the King of the Green River and telegrapher at Lester Washington; Pearl Jacobson, the Morse operator who used to teach school in Saskatchewan; President Harry Truman coming through Auburn on the Ferdinand Magellan in 1948; and the NP foremen with wonderful names like Mike Mola at Ravensdale, Pucci Sabatini at Lester, and Louis Gagoush at Yakima. The station at Nisqually is captured in one of Fredrickson?s lyrical photos taken in 1944. Fredrickson?s pictures and yarns tell of locomotives, depots, diners, cabooses, sidings, yards, shops, turntables, bridges, canyons, tunnels, wrecks, and crossings.
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In 1830 the British actress Fanny Kemble described the sensation of riding in a train as strange beyond description. This revolutionary new mode of transportation came into being at almost exactly the same time as an equally revolutionary new invention: photography. The two would radically change our perception of time, space, and our place in the world, leading to a new way of seeing that Anne M. Lyden, in this thoroughly engaging account, calls railroad vision. In Lyden's words: It is difficult for one to fully grasp how revolutionary these two nineteenth-century innovations were, yet their mutually beneficial relationship has shaped our experience of the modern world.
With more than one hundred photographs, many from the collection of the Getty Museum, Railroad Vision illustrates the parallel histories of railroads and photography?from a photograph of George Stephenson's steam engine Locomotion, to powerful images from the American Civil War, to a mid-twentieth-century photograph by O. Winston Link of a train roaring by a drive-in movie theater. Images by Carleton Watkins, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, and others capture the fascination inspired by railroads and the experience of travel by rail. Whether commissioned by railroad companies or made as independent works of art, these photographs testify to the enduring connection between two technologies that forever changed our perception of the world. Railroad Vision includes new information on many trains and locomotives that will be of particular interest to railroad enthusiasts.
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Starting in the mid-19th Century, The United States transformed itself from a vast, sparsely populated country into a potent industrial force. Central to this transformation was the railroad, its ever--expanding network of tracks connecting people from disparate communities and bringing goods and wares to all corners of the land. Railroads offers a fascinating and colorful telling of this facet of our nation's history.
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Brimming with spectacular photographs and a trainman's vivid memories, Railscapes is an exceptional album, filled with the author?s unbounded enthusiasm, love, and respect for the whole world of trains. Jim Fredrickson?s third book covers more than six decades of American railroading, and offers insider's insights on the business of moving men and materials via the great steel ribbons that connected the Pacific Northwest with the rest of the world.
For 38 years, the author worked for the Northern Pacific in Washington state as a telegraph operator?a brasspounder?and dispatcher. He had the good fortune to work and travel in some of the most beautiful territory in the United States, and his camera covered it all ? from the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho, to the Cascade Range of Washington, to the Puget Sound coastal region.
Since his teens, Fredrickson has been ready to capture on film both ordinary workhorse engines as well as special, magnificent, vintage, or futuristic trains. Drawn from an immense collection of railroad images, Railscapes features more of Jim?s favorite photographs of train wrecks, premier passenger trains, the last of the steam engines, railroad folks, and more.
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