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Lawrence A Stuckey’s Canadian and US Railway Photography - 1935 to 1957 Bain SC
Lawrence A Stuckeys Canadian and US Railway Photography - 1935 to 1957 by Donald M Bain
Soft Cover
76 pages
Copyright 2005
CONTENTS
Lawrence A Stuckey 1921-2001
Lawrences First Railway Photograph
No 2807 on Train No 3 at Brandon
Hudson No 2819
No 5908
No 5811 and T1a 2-10-4 No 5919
Photos taken with upgraded camera so he could now take photos of moving locomotives
No 2032
No 2121
Train No 2 No 2505
Nos 2550-2555 built by Baldwin
No 6056 at the head of Train 1
No 3800
No 2850
No 2360
Teahouse on Field Hill close to present-day Spiral Tunnel lookout
No 5918
No 2713
Train No 2
No 6049
No 49
NO 6401
No 4206
And many more photos.
This is the second BRMNA work dealing with the works of the specific photographer and follows on from Cyril Littlebury's pioneering Canadian work in the 1920s and early 30s. "Stuck" was one of the best-known railway photographers in the steam era and this book traces his railroad photographic career from its first stumbling shots until he gave up in 1957 as steam disappeared. His carefully planned trips took him through Canada and the northern half of the U.S. He took excellent shots of Selkirks, Texas-types, Confederations, Big Boys, Challengers, Yellowstones, Alleghenies, Bullmooses, etc. and over 100 have been selected for this work. Each photograph is accompanied by extensive notes for which BRMNA has become famous.
FOREWORD
This is the second BRMNA work dealing with the works of a specific photographer and follows on from Cyril Littlebury's pioneering Canadian work in the 1920s and early 30s.
Lawrence Adne Stuckey - not many people knew what the initial "A" stood for - was one of Canada's best-known railway photographers. He began his photographic career in 1935 and remained active into the late 1990s, concentrating primarily on the Canadian Pacific system but also recording the Canadian National Railways, as well as lines in the northern United States in the immediate post-World War Two era. He thus captured the final years of steam in the US with wonderful shots of Alleghenies, Big Boys, Challengers and Cab Forwards, etc.
As was common in the earlier days of railway photography, when relatively few high-quality cameras were in use, Lawrence actively traded negatives and sold prints to collectors and amassed a large number of "correspondents" throughout North America. As a result, there are many collections containing Stuckey prints. He was also incredibly generous with his shots and, soon after BRMNA commenced its Canadian Pacific in the Rockies series, Lawrence wrote, sending photographs together with information on each one. Luckily for us, he was a confirmed diarist and kept extensive notes on a daily basis, as well as recording appropriate information on the shots he took. This has made preparing this book relatively easy, as his longtime friend Bill McGuire made Lawrence's notes available. Lawrence had given several of his personal photograph albums to Bill, together with his descriptions and we decided that we should publish this chronological work as a tribute to Lawrence's memory.
Lawrence was not only a Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive Engineer but was also an accomplished amateur botanist, historian and horticulturalist and had an extensive stamp collection. When he died on June 13, 2001, his collection of over 2,000 negatives and 42,500 stamps was bequeathed to Brandon University.
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