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Focus The Railroad in Transition by Robert Carper Dust Jacket 1968 260 pages Ind
Focus The Railroad in Transition by Robert Carper Dust Jacket 1968 260 pages Indexed.
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Focus is a photographic essay that deals with the American railroad as it has undergone its most singular transition since the first steel rail was laid on the North American Continent. During the postwar period the railroad has changed its role and its relationship with the American public almost completely. Since 1947 we have witnessed the disappearance of the steam engine; the dwindling away of the passenger train from its once-proud position as prime-mover of intercity passengers; the inception of modern technological advances such as triple-deck automobile cars, ever-newer concepts in diesel locomotives, the "piggyback" method of freight transportation and the advent of the high-speed passenger train, which hopefully will bring the railroad back into contention as a passenger-carrier.
Unlike most of the books about the railroad, which have generally been steeped in the past, Focus deals with the present; and it presents its material in a unique pietorial manner in which the photographs are arranged so that they themselves tell the story of the modern train. Among the more than 200 photographs, nearly all of which were taken by the author, are those of the last days of the steam loco- motive, more affectionately known as the Iron Horse ( including a steam engine funeral procession), the early first-generation diesels, experimental high - speed passenger trains, modern freightcars, and the mighty third-generation diesels-as different from their predecessors as they in turn were from the steam locomotive.
The text has been kept to a minimum, serving mainly as background for the photographic sequences. But it nevertheless contains enough information to help both the railroad fan and the casual reader discover where the railroad has been-and where it is going.
And where the railroad is going is a matter of great concern for Americans-for already high-speed passenger service on the New York-Washington route has begun; therefore nobody who is at all aware of the importance of this development, and all the other new advances in railroading, can afford to overlook Focus: The Railroad in Transition.
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