The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy

by Jeff Brouws

Book Overview

Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railroad photographers. This collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features 170 duotone photographs taken between 1946 and 1988, with an emphasis on the railroad culture of the fifties and sixties. Jeff Brouws--a railroad authority and photo historian--has contributed a biographical essay that traces Shaughnessy's beginnings photographing steam locomotives in his hometown of Troy, New York, to his documentation of the dramatic steam-to-diesel transition, with an emphasis on the northeastern United States and Canada, where the concentration of railroad action and often deep snow resulted in beautiful and unusual images. Not just a compendium of photographs of locomotives, this book covers the whole railroad world--the sheds, tunnels, viaducts, yard stations, and more. It is a wonderful document of what is arguably railroading's most compelling era.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065928
• ISBN13: 9780393065923
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 12.2" x 11.1"