Jim Shaughnessy Essential Witness: Sixty Years of Railroad Photography [Hardcover]

Jim Shaughnessy is an essential witness to six decades of change in North American railroading, from the late 1940s into the twenty-first century. His photographic achievement is one of the pinnacles of railroad photography as a genre, which he, along with others of his generation, raised to the level of art, worthy of consideration beyond the world of trains and the interest of rail fans.A comprehensive survey of master railroad photographer Jim Shaughnessys images of the railroad in North America in the transitional era from steam locomotives to diesel- powered engines