America's Rail Pictorial
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0911581421 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Take a front row seat and relax as Porters camera takes you on this picturesque ride where you explore steam and diesel locomotives, freight and passenger trains, as well as gas-electrics, RDCs and oddities such as Whitcomb 44-tonners.. For more than half a century, Russ Porter has followed Americas railroads, capturing their moods and their tracks, and now brings you a sampling of what he found
John Matlock said Beautiful Photographs of Late Steam and Early Diesels. At about the time with colorful diesel locomotives were coming about, Russ Porter began taking pictures in color. By the late '50's he was taking pictures of the growing dependence on diesel power, along with the declining number of steam locomotices seen pulling freights, fan excursions, and sitting somewhere awaiting the scrap dealers cutting torch. In this book he has collected three hundred or so of these pictures, all in color and put them into this book.Most of the pictures center around where he lived in Chicago. And in those days there were a lot of railroads, now long gone, operating in the ran
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About the AuthorRuss Porter