 Don Breckon's Country Railway Paintings
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| By : Don Breckon, Kevin Crooks |
Don Breckon's railway paintings recreate the golden days of steam, when rail transport was an indispensable part of everyday life. Here he takes a nostalgic trip through the network of rural branch lines that criss-crossed the British countryside, connecting sleepy stations and country communities with towns and cities near and far. These paintings commemorate the links that flourished with the transportation of coal, milk and mail as well as passengers. They record the trains, fast and slow; the stations, viaducts, cuttings and embankments that sprang up; and the men who operated and maintained the railway. A spectacular gallery of over 20 full-page colour reproductions is complemented by detailed captions describing the background to each picture and texts from several contributing authors, recounting their first-hand experiences on the country railway - as passengers, employees and enthusiasts. Preliminary sketches and enlarged details show the development of the paintings and help to illustrate the artist's meticulous technique.
Publisher: David & Charles
Sales Rank: 1,127,057
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0 
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All Aboard!: Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel
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| By : Lynn Johnson, Michael O'Leary |
Travel back to the wonder years of rail in this beautiful compendium of art and illustration. Through luggage labels, maps, posters, advertisements, promotional brochures, napkins, and other colorful ephemera, All Aboard! celebrates our romance with the railroad. Its pages provide a nostalgic look at rail travel as it used to be, from the exciting early days at the turn of the century through its heyday in the '40s and through World War II.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Sales Rank: 137,077
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0
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American Railroads of the Nineteenth Century: A Pictorial History in Victorian Wood Engravings
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| By : Jim Harter |
With accompanying text, American Railroads of the Nineteenth Century traces the development and growth of rail lines across the country. It also details the corresponding evolution of street railway systems, including horsecars, cable cars, and trolleys. Harter also provides history and images on such themes as Civil War railroads; passenger, mail, and freight service; labor disputes; urban mass transit systems; and train disasters. Perhaps no other book gives such a complete overview of nineteenth-century American railroading.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Sales Rank: 627,052
Avg. Customer Rating: 4 / 5.0 
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Crossroads of Commerce: The Pennsylvania Railroad Calendar Art of Grif Teller
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| By : Dan Cupper, Ken Mury (Photographer) |
Paperback reprint with updates. Each year, starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) commissioned a striking oil painting of a PRR engine in a dramatic setting, which was featured on large wall calendars that the company distributed by the hundreds of thousands to customers and the public. Grif Teller painted 27 of the 33 scenes. This book reproduces Teller's calendar art and his other paintings in full color and recounts his life and career.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Sales Rank: 454,596
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Don Breckons Great Western Railway
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| By : Don Breckon |
Don Breckon's paintings are widely recognized as being in a class of their own, capturing as they do the very essence of the grandeur of the steam locomotive about its everyday work. Here the artist concentrates on his favourite subject, the Great Western Railway. Auto trains, junction connections, double-headed expresses, locomotive depots and wayside stations all come vividly to life in works of true art as well as technical accuracy. Of one thing there can be no doubt - the artist's love of his subject. This comes out not only in the paintings but in the detailed commentaries and the extenisve introductory text with its own range of illustrations. This book comprises a gallery in itself to be treasured as such.
Publisher: David & Charles
Sales Rank: 1,478,769
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0
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Fiddletown and Copperopolis
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| By : Carl Fallberg |
This delightful collection of railroad cartoons by Fallberg of Walt Disney fame is a 144-page, softbound, 9 5/8 x 6 1/4" book illustrating the trails and tribulations of a narrow gauge "uncommon" carrier. To anyone familiar with the lore of America's three-foot railroad lines, the feeling persists that within these pages lies a disguised pictorial history of prototype narrow gauge railroads in a very humorous vein. The key word in Fallberg's illustrations is exaggeration. Source: Heimburger House Publishing Co.
Publisher: Heimburger House Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 907,629
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Imprints: David Plowden: A Retrospective
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| By : David Plowden (Photographer), Alan Trachtenberg (Introduction) |
From trains and bridges to small towns, steel mills, and steamboats, photographer David Plowden has devoted his career to memorializing the vestiges of America's industrial and rural past. Published in conjunction with retrospectives opening at Yale University and in Buffalo, this book covers Plowden's career and the very best of his work. 170 illustrations.
Publisher: Bulfinch
Sales Rank: 163,869
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0
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In the Traces: Railroad Paintings of Ted Rose
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| By : Ted Rose, Thomas H. Garver (Introduction) |
This book brings together 60 of Ted Rose best paintings focusing primarily on railroads and railroading with special emphasis on the age of steam. The work is presented in six parts: yard work; Night Moves; Tuesday's Just as Bad, On the Road, Railroad Places, and Revival. Rose begins each section with an introduction explaining his artistic motivations and purposes and adds a brief comment - again from his perspective as an artist - about each of t paintings.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Sales Rank: 128,782
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.75 / 5.0
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