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Jim Shaughnessy: Essential Witness is a comprehensive overview of
Shaughnessy's sixty year as a railroad photographer. Starting in
the late 1940s, he began documenting in earnest the rapidly
changing railroad scene in the Northeastern United States. His
interests and travels also took him to other areas of the country
to document the Rio Grande narrow gauge in Colorado and the UP Big
Boys in Wyoming, and various locations in Canada. His timing was
perfect: he was there to record the dramatic transition between the
steam and diesel eras as well as documenting and recording for
posterity the workers behind the machines that operated in the
depots, roundhouses and back shops of the American railroad
environment. Lucius Beebe once described Shaughnessy as `a master
in the massive effects of black and white.' The book includes some
150 duotone photographs taken between 1948 and 1970, with the
emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s. Images include landscapes, cities
and towns; action shots of formidable trains barreling down the
tracks; snaps of weary railroad workers; nighttime photos of
shadowy enclaves within the railyard; and many more.
One would be challenged to find a railroad to compare scenically
and historically with the Rutland Railroad. With Yankee
persistence, it struggled for its existence in the snows of Vermont
and northern New York for more than one hundred years. Running
through territory amply covered by larger and stronger lines, it
survived bankruptcy, receivership, flood, unequal competition,
seizure, depression, and strikes. Its vestigial remains operate in
a small area to this day. Jim Shaughnessy-award-winning railroad
photographer and authority-discusses the Rutland's entire history
thoroughly, from preconstrnction in 1831 to the present. In this
updated edition, the author covers the history of the three lines
that continued to operate after the demise of the Rutland
Railroad-the Vermont Railway, the Green Mountain Railroad, and the
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority. Lavishly illustrated with
more than 500 incomparable photographs (including those by railroad
photographer Philip R. Hastings), The Rutland Road has other
features for the railroad enthusiast and historian alike: maps,
charts, reproductions of advertisements, a detailed index with
engine rosters, a chronology of the Rutland Railroad, and other
significant statistical information.
One would be challenged to find a railroad to compare scenically
and historically with the Rutland Railroad. With Yankee
persistence, it struggled for its existence in the snows of Vermont
and northern New York for more than one hundred years. Running
through territory amply covered by larger and stronger lines, it
survived bankruptcy, receivership, flood, unequal competition,
seizure, depression, and strikes. Its vestigial remains operate in
a small area to this day. Jim Shaughnessy-award-winning railroad
photographer and authority-discusses the Rutland's entire history
thoroughly, from preconstrnction in 1831 to the present. In this
updated edition, the author covers the history of the three lines
that continued to operate after the demise of the Rutland
Railroad-the Vermont Railway, the Green Mountain Railroad, and the
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority. Lavishly illustrated with
more than 500 incomparable photographs (including those by railroad
photographer Philip R. Hastings), The Rutland Road has other
features for the railroad enthusiast and historian alike: maps,
charts, reproductions of advertisements, a detailed index with
engine rosters, a chronology of the Rutland Railroad, and other
significant statistical information.
Here, in a pictorial history, Jim Shaughnessy turns an eloquent
photographer's eye to the Delaware & Hudson, the line that
began in 1823 as a canal system to transport Pennsylvania coal to
New York State. The D&H extended from Montreal to the coal
fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. It was active for 170 years,
when the route was sold in 1993 to the Canadian Pacific Railway
Corporation. The line made early railroad fame by importing from
England the famous Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive in
America. This occurred during a great expansion into gravity, an
interesting phase which took advantage of the mountainous terrain.
The nineteenth century saw a period of economic growth and
amalgamation, which was shaped by extremely able and ambitiou
company presidents. Eventually the D&H advertised itself as
"the Bridge Line to New England and Canada." Mountainous terrain
around the coal mines challenged the line with heavy grades, so it
was natural for one of its presidents, L. F. Loree, to be
fascinated with experimental traction power. The many Loree
locomotives, leaders in progressive design, are pictured and
described herein. Because a good railroad history is always an
economic history of a region, this book will surely please
historian, too. Delaware & Hudson is a definitive work,
encompassing the mining of the region and detailing the steamboat
operations on Lakes George and Champlain. Syracuse University Press
is pleased to reissue this exemplary study of a railroad. Delaware
& Hudson has-and will-continue to raise the standards for all
future railroad books.
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."
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