"Outbound Trains" features distinguished American photographer, writer and rail magazine editor Jim Boyd's best images from the early 1960s through the 1970s, with emphasis on the colourful first-generation diesel railroads before "merger mania" took over the North American railroad scene. A lively text and scores of incomparable photographs take the reader coast to coast with most major American railroads and provide a sampling of interesting short lines and restored main line and museum steam. This remarkable collection ...
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"Outbound Trains" features distinguished American photographer, writer and rail magazine editor Jim Boyd's best images from the early 1960s through the 1970s, with emphasis on the colourful first-generation diesel railroads before "merger mania" took over the North American railroad scene. A lively text and scores of incomparable photographs take the reader coast to coast with most major American railroads and provide a sampling of interesting short lines and restored main line and museum steam. This remarkable collection brims over with spectacular photographs of: aging roundhouses and country stations; the great stations of Chicago; pre-amtrak passenger trains; Twentieth Century Limited; midnight special; local, mail trains and branch-line "Doodlebugs"; N&W Geeps and SD's in the West Virginia coalfields; the California Zephyr threading through the Feather River canyon; slant-nose stainless-steel-panelled Burlington E5's race across the Illinois prairie; electric Pennsylvania GG1's; Milwaukee road boxcabs, and Little Joes; the historic steam of Southern Pacific "Daylight" 4449; and Union Pacific Challenger 3985, "the world's largest operating steam locomotive". This book features vintage photography of American railways for the world rail enthusiast.
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