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| Lucius Beebe, High Iron, A Book of Trains, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1938 |
A New York, New Haven and Hartford train is just pulling out of the station at Meriden, Connecticut in 1882, this might be one of the very first train action shots taken. The wet glass plate process meant the photographer would have had to develop the image immediately.
The author, a noted train aficionado, thought this was one of the finest train action shots ever taken, but there must have been a million similar-style train shots taken since. Maybe the original shows more detail but a scan of an old printed page might not be the best reproduction.
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Good ol' Luscious Lucious. He had a column in the San Francisco Chronicle for years...the dude definitely lived life on his own terms...if you're ever in Sacramento check out the State Railway Museum. The private Edwardian era railcar that Beebe and his partner Charles Clegg owned is there. The two used to live in the car up in Virginia City. The interior of that thing is right out of a Sherlock Holmes movie. His Railroad books are all good reads.
When I was a kid looking for railway books, I recall his name came up quite often. I pictured a crusty old railfan in an engineer's cap, I had no idea.
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