Railroad Shutterbug: Jim Fredrickson's Northern Pacific

by Jim Fredrickson

Book Overview

As a youngster in 1936, Jim Fredrickson took his first railroad photo of a class A-2 locomotive at Butte, Montana. Soon, railroad men in Tacoma, Washington, were regularly seeing the "kid with a camera" in the rail yards and along the tracks. In 1943, the chief dispatcher at Tacoma's Union Station told Fredrickson, yet a high school student: "You're hanging around here all the time, you might as well go to work." Fredrickson became a callboy. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874221978
• ISBN13: 9780874221978
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.6" x 9.0"