In the Traces presents 60 paintings by Ted Rose, with commentary by the artist. The works are an eloquent and absorbing view of industrial America, especially of railroads as an integral part of the man-made landscape.
Here is the rich narrative of a journey of discovery that began 50 years ago when Rose confronted changes everywhere during the time railroads and the country were in transition. His paintings are a record of his continuing fascination with railroad places, a visual anthology of past and present. These masterful watercolors well describe the atmosphere and life along the tracks during the last half of the 20th century.
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This lavishly illustrated history of the American railroad poster whisks us away to an era when the rails were king. These enticing advertisements to visit the cities and landmarks of the growing United States make for a truly sentimental journey--and a luscious feast for the eyes!
Between 1870 and 1950, America's railroads produced a body of poster work significant both for the artists involved and for the range of images created. The railroads used this visual medium from their founding, first in the form of broadsides, dominated by text and intended to convey practical information, and then, during the 1890s, as vivid lithographed display posters. For the next 50 years, American railroads commissioned posters designed to spur the popular imagination and thereby encourage travel. Images of compelling intensity included Maurice Logan's icons of the 1920s overland limiteds passing in the West; Adolph Treidler's wonder cities; Santa Fe's Native Americans; and Leslie Ragan's and Sascha Maurer's machine-age steamliners.
Although a great deal has been written about European railway and travel posters, their American counterparts remained in the shadows. Travel by Train focuses on the artists, railroad men, and advertising agencies that created and produced the work. It presents the posters in the context of the historical trends and competitive strategies that shaped the development of the railroad industry. The book also follows the development of the advertising business and graphic design in the U.S. and Europe. It features approximately 160 poster images (many in color), personal photographs, and sketches, many of them never before published.
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Whether built of stone, brick, wood, iron, steel, or concrete, bridges have captivated our imaginations more than any other man-made structures. In David Plowden's words, there is no more overt, powerful, or rational expression of accomplishment?of man's ability to build. And Americans, in particular, have excelled in this structural art. Bridges explores in depth how, when, where, and by whom the most important North American bridges were built, and, with Plowden's superb photographs, we can dwell on their most important engineering and aesthetic qualities. In his extensive text, Plowden vividly records the discoveries, misconceptions, struggles, failures, and triumphs of the men who dedicated their energies to bridge design and construction. Plans of many of the bridges are included to illuminate less obvious aspects of these engineering marvels. Although a number of the bridges herein have been lost and others have been built, this volume stands as a stunning and powerful argument for our continued reverence for these wonderful structures. 184 duotone photographs, line drawings.
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Many of the bridges built during the past 10 years show a high degree of experimentation. Bridges are also starting to attract attention as important features of the cultural and architectural landscape. With an introduction by the acclaimed architectural critic Hugh Pearman, this captivating reference analyzes 30 bridges around the world that display the most cutting-edge architectural and engineering trends in recent bridge construction. Each bridge is displayed in full, lavish color, while the accompanying text, drawings, and details demonstrate how the bridge is constructed and what innovative design and engineering features it incorporates. Projects range from the impressive 5,328-foot Great Belt Link in Denmark to the innovative covered-tube walkway designed for the Plashet Grove School in East London, from the Charles River Mainline Bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Roosevelt Lake Bridge in Phoenix, Arizona. Plus, readers will find dozens of other interesting projects by such internationally renowned architects and engineers as J?nzett, Future Systems, T. Y. Lin, I. M. Pei, Modjeski and Masters, WilkinsonEyre Architects, and many others.
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A lavishly illustrated engineering history of American railroads--bridges, mountain passes, tunnels, freight yards, docks and terminals--from pioneer times to the present. American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect great bridges, or to bore tunnels of prodigious length. There is a remarkable story of the application of engineering to the building of a transportation system that civilized and settled America, and then supported an industrial revolution and created a world power.
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You may have seen some of these machines and tools as you roll alongside a rail bed. But what to call them, or knowing how they work, may allude you. Find the true identity of the different tools used to build and maintain railbeds and lines including tie pullers, rail grinders, and much, much more. Detailed photos show the machines and tools in action. This is a handy reference guide for fans of full-size railways or modelers.
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North American Railyardsed pick Author: Michael Rhodes Publisher: Motorbooks International; (October 2003)
Railroad classification yards are sprawling, multi-acre facilities featuring miles of complex track and sidings where rolling stock is dropped off, sorted, and otherwise switched from train to train before being sent off to its next destination. With the glory days of train passenger service and thus railroad terminals long gone, classification yards have become the focus of modern railroad operations.
This comprehensive, illustrated guide is the definitive reference to major North American railyards - more than 70 in all. Over the past 13 years the author has visited each yard gathering brief histories, operating data, information on unique characteristics, and photographs. In the relatively few cases in which yards have been downsized or closed, the author includes the most recent information.
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No memory of train travel survives so vividly as a sumptuous meal in the dining car. James D. Porterfield chronicles the evolution of the dining car from hotcakes hawked in the aisles to gourmet service. Included are 325 delicious recipes from 48 great railroads of the 20th century. These recipes needed to be cooked quickly in small kitchens with few utensils, using fresh ingredients, so they're fast and easy to prepare and marvelous to serve for today's chefs.
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My husband Norman Thomas Taylor, a retired railroader, and myself, Wilma Rugh Taylor, a retired journalism teacher and free-lance writer, traveled over 20,000 miles over five years following the routes of these thirteen railroad church cars across 36 states. The journeys of the cars started in 1890 and ended in the early 1950s. The text is written from the original journals of the missionaries and priests who traveled on the chapel cars and provides fascinating descriptions of social and religious life in America at the turn-of-the-century.
Trains Magazine, Dec. 1999 issue, reviewed the book as one of the most comprehensive railroad history book ever published. The book is a unique blend of religious, railroad, and American history.Included are logs of over 3000 towns visited by the cars and floor plans of the cars for model railroaders. We never believed that we would have the opportunity to tell such an amazing story.
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A pair of gleaming rails embedded in a farmhouse driveway. A wooded cycling trail that traces an oddly level path through suburban hills. An abandoned high fill that briefly parallels the interstate. Today, little remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America. But in 1946, the steam locomotive was king, the automobile was just beginning to emerge from wartime restrictions, passenger trains still made stops in nearly every town, and freight trains carried most of the nation's intercity commerce.
In A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946, Richard C. Carpenter provides a unique record of this not-so-distant time, when traveling out of town meant, for most Americans, taking the train. The first volume of this multivolume series covers the mid-Atlantic states and includes detailed maps of every passenger railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. When completed, the series will provide a comprehensive atlas of the U.S. railroad system at its post?World War II high point--a transportation network that many considered the finest railroad passenger system in the world.
Meticulously crafted and rich in detail, these hand-drawn color maps reveal with skilled precision--at a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles (or 1:250,000)--the various main and branch railroad passenger and freight lines that served thousands of American towns. The maps also include such features as long-since-demolished steam locomotive and manual signal tower installations, towns that functioned solely as places where crews changed over, track pans, coaling stations, and other rail-specific sites.
Currently, there exists no comprehensive, historic railroad atlas for the U.S. This volume, with its 202 full-scale and detail maps, is sure to remain the standard reference work for years to come, as will the others to follow in the series.
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An engaging book, one likely to become a railroad classic. The major strength of Set Up Running is detail, particularly when it involves locomotives, train movements, and patterns of operation. Especially enjoyable are the depictions of Orr as a loyal Pennsylvania Railroad employee and of his overall pride of workmanship. ?H. Roger Grant, Clemson University
Set Up Running tells the story of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive engineer, Oscar P. Orr, who operated steam-powered freight and passenger trains throughout Central Pennsylvania and South Central New York. From 1904 to 1949, Orr sat at the controls of many famous steam locomotives; moved trains loaded with coal, perishables, and other freight; and encountered virtually every situation a locomotive engineer of that era could expect to see.
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Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mechanical engineering profession both grew directly out of the Industrial Revolution's need for sources of power beyond that of men and animals. Invented in England when coal mining was being developed, the practical steam engine eventually found numerous applications in transportation, especially in railroad technology. J. Parker Lamb traces the evolution of the steam engine from the early 1700s through the early 1800s, when the first locomotives were sent to the United States from England. Lamb then shifts the scene to the development of the American steam locomotive, first by numerous small builders, and later, by the early 20th century, by only three major enterprises and a handful of railroad company shops. Lamb reviews the steady progress of steam locomotive technology through its pinnacle during the 1930s, then discusses the reasons for its subsequent decline.
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The Climax Locomotiveed pick Author: Dennis Thompson, Richard Dunn, Steve Hauff Publisher: Oso Publishing (August 1, 2002)
The Climax Locomotive is the complete, comprehensive story of one of America's venerable industrial locomotives. Only about 1035 were produced from 1888 to 1928, yet they saw service all over North America and were successfully exported. Most served in the woods or in the mining industry. Like it's major competitors--Lima's Shay and Heisler's geared engine--the Climax was well suited for work on steep grades and sharp curves running on light rail or tram roads on wooden rail. Some felt the Climax was an unbalanced monster waiting to shake itself apart while others would run no other. Regardless, the Climax proved itself a reliable and rugged unit with most providing service to several owners over long periods of time.
In this book you'll find over 650 photographs, plus drawings and several comprehensive versions of Climax production records detailing this unique and fascinating locomotive. The authoring team includes a who's-who of Climax researchers, and the entire project was started and endorsed by the late Walt Casler, a former Climax employee who spent his entire life researching this locomotive. (There are no surviving factory production records, making the research of this locomotive especially challenging.) There has never been another book like it, and the work here--years in the making--represents the most ambitious attempt to pull together all known data and offer a wide range of photos from literally all over the world.
Please note: This book is not a reprint of any earlier Climax book. The Climax Locomotive is an all-new, from-scratch effort led by the late Walt Casler and represents a significant attempt to pull together all known Climax data to date. 512 pages, hardbound with a dust jacket.
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Rails To Paradiseed pick Author: Russell Holter and J. Clark McAbee Publisher: Holter Historical Research (2005)
The History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad (1890-1919)
This long anticipated book features: over 500 pages of text--First person accounts of life on the railroad--400 rare photos-- custom drawn maps--plus many other illustrations. Learn the origins of this little logging line that grew from obscurity, survived despite economic panic, wars, limited financing, and both hostile and friendly acquisitions to become a national tourist destination and one of the most profitable rail lines west of Chicago.
Unlike most books on this site, this one is only available directly through the author. I don't make a commission if you buy this one, but it's such a good book I'm featuring it anyway. If you're interested in the Tacoma Eastern, this is THE book.
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This book is different than anything ever written about luxury trains and is capable of making the oldest train fan remember and the youngest truly envious of such memories, as it describes in detail what it was like to ride more than half-way across the country?Chicago to Tacoma?in 1941, the last year such trains ran before the effects of global conflict and change made them disappear forever.
No detail is overlooked that might help satisfy the hunger of today?s reader for such an experience. The personalized story of the trip is augmented by hundreds of photographs, charts, diagrams, floor plans, dining car menus, and reproduced timetables of the time. All related by the man who actually experienced them. The book is probably best described by a reader who said, I rode that train at almost that time and when I read these pages I recalled things long since forgotten. It has made forgotten things live again and cherished things still remembered even more treasured as I fit them once more into a past that I thought was gone forever.
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This book uses the contents of the official 1952 Pennsylvania RR passenger train consist book detailing the make-up of its east-west trains. The author supplements this data with a general introduction about PRR service of the period, and introduces each train with a description of its make-up, service, and cars used.
Color photos illustrate many of the cars used in the era. B&W and Color photos show typical trains. Illustrations of menus and ads complete the book.
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The last years of steam in America (1955-1960) are documented in this volume featuring O. Winston Link's famed photography. The shots were taken at night, to capture the drama and energy of the trains in action.
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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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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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Images of Western Railroadinged pick Author: Steve Schmollinger Publisher: Motorbooks International; (September 2003)
From dizzying mountain passes to verdant pine valleys and arid desert canyons, the regions spanning the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast have always presented the railroad industry with special difficulties, spurring the development of new equipment to surmount those challenges. This is an art book treatment showing North America?s most recognizable railroads in spectacular locations appealing to railfans nationwide.
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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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Striking black and white photographs commemorate the unsung heroes of railroading during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Postwar industrial boom. Vintage shots ? the gritty engineer at the throttle, the conductor waving from the caboose, the cross-country passenger riding in style and comfort ? capture bygone scenes of everyday folks intersecting with the greatest industry America has ever known. Compiled and written by Model Railroader senior editor Carl Swanson; introduction by Doug Ridell, locomotive engineer.
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Railway Photographyed pick Author: Brian Solomon, John E. Gruber Publisher: Krause Publications; (December 2003)
Travel the world through the pages of this unique pictorial capturing some of the most impressive, significant, and interesting elements of railroading from today and yesterday. Lush photos are accompanied by informative and fascinating stories that convey the energy and excitement of steel-rail transport.
Locomotives, trains, stations, bridges, tunnels, and other railway masterpieces are richly displayed, accompanied by technical details and distinctive perspectives. American railroading takes center stage in this volume?including Grand Central Terminal, the Pioneer Zephyr and Moffat Tunnel?but readers will also experience the best the world offers: Britain?s Flying Scotsman, the Japanese Shinkansen, Finland?s Helsinki Station, and more.
Solomon is a leading world railroad photographer and writer. He has co-authored more than ten books and has studied railway operations in more than a dozen countries. The book draws from his 100,000+-image collection, plus features the photographic work of such notables as Otto Perry, Jim Shaughnessy, Colin Garratt, John Gruber, and many others.
? Lush photos of current and historical trains, bridges, stations, and more
? Feature stories tell the tale behind each masterpiece
? Author is respected railway expert, photographer, and writer
To the true rail fan, Richard Steinheimer is an authentic hero, the best of the best. A pioneer in train photography, Steinheimer lived through and documented the railroad's heyday and its decline. He is one of very few photographers who appreciate the aesthetics of all locomotives, from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered behemoths. He has a particular fondness for the landscape of the American West, and many of his images situate trains in the larger geography and culture of the time. Known for taking pictures at night, in bad weather, and from risky perches on top of moving train platforms, Steinheimer has an enormous creativity and productivity. This, the first full-length celebration of his work, presents 160 of his duotone images, with an introduction by Jeff Brouws.
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Here is a collection of stories about favorite train journeys by an inveterate railway enthusiast and train traveler. Bill Middleton's journeys have included experiences as diverse as the long journey north through Manitoba, a slow trek across Thrace on one of the last runs of the celebrated Simplon-Orient Express, and a ride to Asia's highest mountain east of the Himalayas on Taiwan's Ali Shan Forestry Railway.
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Divides the state into regions and explores the major railroads, recounts the lore, profiles the individuals involved, and identifies places one can go to experience the relics of rail culture. These are regional histories of the great railroads and rail stores of the people and events that shaped history. Includes rails to trails paths, tourist attractions, and more.
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The original Railroad Tycoon, released in 1990, quickly became a tremendous critical and commercial success, and at the same time created the Tycoon genre of game play.
The sequel, Railroad Tycoon 2, released in 1998, marked the rebirth of Tycoon games and was the first Tycoon game of the modern era, with great graphics, dozens of scenarios and Internet multi-player.
The Railroad Tycoon series has received critical acclaim and won numerous awards, including the coveted 'Game Of The Year' from numerous publications. This successful franchise has sold in excess of two million copies and established a massive and passionate worldwide fan base.
Now, the King and creator of the Tycoon genre is returning to reclaim its throne!
The original Railroad Tycoon was created by world-renowned developer, Sid Meier. It was the first Tycoon game ever made, and successfully merged a well-crafted business model with a player friendly graphical presentation. Railroad Tycoon was a critical success, winning 'Game of the Year' from the major magazines of the day, and became a worldwide bestseller.
In 1997, Phil Steinmeyer, CEO of PopTop and a huge fan of the original Railroad Tycoon game, began work on a new railroad game, designed to be the spiritual successor to Railroad Tycoon. A year and a half later Railroad Tycoon 2 (published by Gathering), was released, and like it predecessor became a massive critical and commercial success, garnering many 'Strategy Game of the Year' and 'Game of the Year' type awards. With sales of over 1.5 million copies it was clear that Phil Steinmyer had accomplished his goal, in fact the game is still selling today five years later.
Six months after Railroad Tycoon 2 launched, the game Rollercoaster Tycoon was released and proved to be a huge success, holding the #1 slot in the PC sales charts for many weeks. The tycoon craze was on - dozens of games have launched over the years since, attempting to duplicate the formula that made the Railroad Tycoon series resonate so soundly within the gaming community
Now, in 2003, PopTop and Gathering stand ready to release Railroad Tycoon 3, a big budget, gorgeous 3D transformation of the classic and the game that will usher in the third era of Tycoon games.
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In the 1890s Philadelphia's preeminent photographer, William H. Rau, was commissioned to take more than 450 photographs along the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in order to promote travel on the railway to the general public. Known as the standard railroad of the world, the PRR was the largest rail system in the East and linked metropolitan New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and such industrial cities of the Midwest as Chicago and St. Louis.
This oversize volume reproduces almost 100 of the photographs, carefully selected for their historical and artistic significance, as full-page quadtone images, capturing the impact of the originals as closely as possible. The photographs are arranged in geographical order along the various branches of the PRR, and each photograph is accompanied by a descriptive caption provided by PRR expert James J. D. Lynch, Jr. In the three essays that complement the photographs, Kenneth Finkel details Rau's career and early commercial photography, Mary Panzer places Rau and his PRR photographs in the context of the history of American landscape photography, and John R. Stilgoe discusses the advent of railroad advertising photography and its role in shaping perceptions of the American landscape.
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Inter-city rail travel is one of the dominant facts of modern life. In the wake of the railway renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s, new train stations from the US to Japan must respond to increasingly complex challenges, as high-speed trains become more and more common and the next generation of magnetically levitated trains approaches. The state-of-the-art examples featured in Modern Trains and Splendid Stations are analyzed from several perspectives: as generators of urban renewal; as new architectural icons; and as connecting points for different means of transportation. The work of such internationally renowned architects involved in station design as Meinhard von Gerkan (Germany), Nicholas Grimshaw (England), Santiago Calatrava (Switzerland), and Arata Isozaki (Japan) is prominently illustrated in full color. Featuring the newest designs for the ICE train in Germany and the TGV in France, as well as the Japanese bullet train and the northeastern US corridor's high-speed Acela service, Modern Trains and Splendid Stations presents the very latest trends in rail travel, affording a glimpse of what passengers can expect in the twenty-first century.
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Many Are Calleded pick Author: Walker Evans, James Agee, Luc Sante, Jeff L. Rosenheim Publisher: Yale University Press (October 1, 2004)
??ú[New York City subway riders] are members of every race and nation of the earth.
They are of all ages, of all temperaments, of all classes, of almost every imaginable occupation.
. . . Each, also, is an individual existence, as matchless as a thumbprint or a snowflake.??Ñ
??÷James Agee, from the introduction
Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans.
Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat??÷the lens peeking through a buttonhole??÷he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans???s subway portraits.
This beautiful new edition??÷published in the centenary year of the NYC subway??÷is an essential book for all admirers of Evans???s unparalleled photographs, Agee???s elegant prose, and the great City of New York.
Luc Sante, author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts, is Visiting Professor of Writing and the History of Photography at Bard College; Jeff L. Rosenheim, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the editor of Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology and Walker Evans: Polaroids and was the main contributor to the Metropolitan???s exhibition catalogue Walker Evans (2000).
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Relates the story of women who have worked on the railroad in ever-increasing numbers and expanding range of jobs from the mid-1800s to the present.
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Remarkable stories of the people, the locomotives, passenger trains, train travel, and the railroad system from a legendary railroad observer and long-time editor of Trains magazine.
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In 1835, there were 175 steam locomotives in service in the United States. By 1900, that number had increased to 37,663. In this new edition of his classic work, renowned railroad historian John H. White, Jr., chronicles the explosive growth and development of the steam locomotive in America, from the first British imports to the New York elevated locomotives of the 1880s. 292 illustrations.
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The power and romance of the age of steam are captured in this vividly illustrated chronicle of the steam trains and railways that forged a new era in transportation from 1830 onward. Presenting the first opportunity for long-distance travel powered by machines, the emergence of the train had an unprecedented influence on the development of industry, social history, emigration, leisure patterns, and military history. The steam locomotive was, in short, an engine for change whose impact around the world was both profound and indelible. Written by well-known author John Westwood, this handsome volume features over 250 full-color and historic sepia photographs.
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The largest maker of heavy machinery in Gilded Age America and an important global exporter, the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia achieved renown as one of the nation's most successful and important firms. Relying on gifted designers and skilled craftsmen, Baldwin built thousands of standard and custom steam locomotives, ranging from narrow gauge 0-4-0 industrial engines to huge mallet compounds.
John K. Brown analyzes the structure of railroad demand; the forces driving continual innovation in locomotive design; Baldwin's management systems, shop-floor skills, and career paths; and the evolution of production methods. Baldwin's sophisticated production-management controls prefigured the scientific management movement and allowed the firm to fulfill its customers' special design needs, thus cementing close relations with clients. The company became so adept at meeting varied specifications that in a single year, 1890, its 4,500 workers made 946 locomotives to 316 different designs.
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Second revised edition of a very popular book by one of the world's foremost railroad authors.
This comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification has been out of print for many years. Now, Indiana University Press is proud to announce its return in a new, updated second edition.
For most of the first half of the 20th century, the United States led the way in railroad electrification. Before the outbreak of World War II, the country had some 2,400 route-miles and more than 6,300 track-miles operating under electric power, far more than any other nation and more than 20 percent of the world's total. In almost every instance, electrification was a huge success. Running times were reduced. Tonnage capacities were increased. Fuel and maintenance costs were lowered, and the service lives of electric locomotives promised to be twice as long as those of steam locomotives. Yet despite its many triumphs, electrification of U.S. railroads failed to achieve the wide application that once was so confidently predicted. By the 1970s, it was the Soviet Union, with almost 22,000 electrified route-miles, that led the way, and the U.S. had declined to 17th place.
Today, electric operation of U.S. railroads is back in the limelight. The federally funded Northeast Corridor Improvement Program has provided an expanded Northeast Corridor electrification, with high-speed trains that are giving the fastest rail passenger service ever seen in North America, while still other high-speed corridors are planned for other parts of the country. And with U.S. rail freight tonnage at its highest levels in history, the ability of electric locomotives to expand capacity promises to bring renewed consideration of freight railroad electrification.
Middleton begins his ambitious chronicle of the ups and downs of railway electrification with the history of its early days, and brings it right up to the present?which is surely not the end of this complex and mercurial story.
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The luxurious dome cars delivered fabulous views to rail travelers in the 1950s. Hundreds of photos trace the history of dome cars from their earliest construction to the end of their era.
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Starlight on the RailsTop 20!ed pick Author: Jeff Brouws, Richard Steinheimer (Introduction), Ed Delvers Publisher: Harry N Abrams
The years between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s saw a flowering of railroad photography in America. Photographers vied with one another to find archetypal railroad scenes that they recorded with novelistic precision. The most demanding technical efforts, however, were devoted to capturing the railroads at night. Here, in a stylish and moving book, are the last great steam engines, lonely motormen, silent stations, and more, all evoking the spirit of night railroading-as quintessentially American as cool jazz-in its glory days.
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A superb collection of photographs from the archives of one of the most remarkable partnerships in the history of photography. Here are stunning portraits of the steam locomotives used by the logging industry in northwest Washington during the first half of the 20th century, beautifully reproduced in duo-tone, on high-quality matte paper. Entertaining text recounts the history of each locomotive and the logging operation that used it.
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Between the years 1935 and 1941, the Farm Security Administration employed some of the most highly regarded American photographers, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, to document a country whose people and institutions were in upheaval. This remarkable book makes use of the very best black-and-white railroad photographs from this period, taken directly from the Library of Congress. Diverse images show everything from main line and branch railroading to electric operations. Intimate, humanistic photographs also portray the people who ran the trains and the people affected by them, hobos and children alike. Each photograph has been restored to perfection and appears with the photographer's original caption.
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The purchase in 1888 of 83,000 acres of fir, cedar, and hemlock in Washington's Cascade Mountains by four midwestern entrepreneurs was the largest timberland sale to date. It led to the creation of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, for a decade the world's largest timber operation. A giant sawmill was built in an area of Tacoma know as The Boot, a low island of the main tideflats, bordered by branches of the Puyallup River and Commencement Bay.
The St. Paul and Tacoma played a major role in developing markets for American lumber around the Pacific rim. It built the first standard gauge logging railroad and introduced the band-saw into Pacific Northwest lumber operations. Locally, it began the industrial development of the Tacoma tideflats. In addition, the company was instrumental in the formation of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and it led campaigns to regulate railroad freight rates, to prevent forest fires, and to search for a legal way to control lumber prices.
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Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers chronicles the development of the modern amusement park ride. Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon of Arrow Development are the inventors behind some of the world's most popular amusement attractions. Winners of the Hall of Fame, Living Legends award presented by the amusement industry for lifetime achievement, their influence can not be overstated. They are the inventors of the tubular steel roller coaster, first used at Disneyland as the Matterhorn Mountain Bobsleds. Later, Karl Bacon developed the flume ride and other varieties of controlled water vehicles that became the ride systems for It's a Small World and Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland. A few years later Ed and Karl returned to a roller coaster element long forgotten; the loop. They invented the first modern looping coaster the Corkscrew, at Knott's Berry Farm. Working for almost twenty years in close collaboration with Walt Disney and the Disney organization, they are responsible for many of the innovative ride systems constructed at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. If you have ever been to an amusement or theme park, you have probably ridden upon one of Ed and Karl's remarkable creations. This is the story of their journey, in their own words, from a poor machine shop to a company creating attractions throughout the world.
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Follow the PRR's remarkable effort to engineer a powerful, efficient, and clean means of moving people and products -- at a time when steam and diesel were the norm. Features vintage photographs of electrified equipment in action. Includes route maps and depictions of operations.
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