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The search for steam; a cavalcade of smoky action in steam by the greatest railroad photographers

Title
The search for steam; a cavalcade of smoky action in steam by the greatest railroad photographers, by Joe G. Collias.
Author
Collias, Joe G.
Publication
  • Berkeley, California : Howell-North Books, [1972]
  • ©1972

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Howell-North Books, publisher.
Description
360 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs; 29 cm
Summary
"By the end of the 1950s mot steam railroading in America seemed to be over, but in a few places in the country steam still ran, and in the files of known and unknown photographers were unpublihsed view of the glorious steam locomotive. Richard Kindig in the Rockies, Preston George on Curtis Hill, H. Reid and August A. Thieme Jr., in the tidewater, Robert Collins in the East and many others followed and photographed the beloved mathinces, until those too were gone. But the great Search for Steam had uncovered novel views of the old and familiar, as well as scenes that have long been overlooked." --From inside of book jacket
Subject
  • Locomotives > United States
  • Locomotives
  • United States
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Contents
The innocent years -- The diesel fad -- Hidden beauty -- Engine photographs -- Main trains and troop sleepers -- Smoky citadels -- Curtis Hill, courtesy Preston George -- Rarely seen eastern scenes -- Because they were there : mountain climbers in steam and soul -- Zip, zip, went the C. & E.I. Zipper -- The Old Reliable and friends -- Canada's own, a perfectionist with the Flying Wedge -- Gems of the Southwest -- What's new on the Southern Pacific? -- Over and under at Hannibal, Missouri -- Southern hospitality, or "keep off the right of way" -- Summer idyll at Mendota, Illinois -- Little friends in the backwoods -- East of West-by-"gawd" Virginia -- Everyone had a favorite -- Order on the fly -- A railroad fair, would you believe it? -- Dawn to dusk at Attica Junction -- Reprieve in Mexico -- With no apologies -- The last chance.
ISBN
  • 0831070927
  • 9780831070922
LCCN
72086957
OCLC
  • ocm00482753
  • 482753
  • SCSB-131459
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library