Shaughnessy
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Jim shaughnessy is a revered name among railroad photographersoxfam bookshop raeburn place signed on title page, no dedication, signature onlythis collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features 170 duotone photographs taken between and , with an emphasis on the railroad culture of the fifties and sixtiesnot just a compendium of photographs of locomotives, this book covers the whole railroad world-the sheds, tunnels, viaducts, yard stations, and moresee oxfam website for delivery information read morejeff 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 imagesit is a wonderful document of what is arguably railroading's most compelling era
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