Kinsey Photographer: The Locomotive Portraits
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Editor: Dave BohnEditor: Rodolfo Petschek
Photographer: Darius Kinsey
Photographer: Tabitha Kinsey
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-30
ISBN: 1884822657
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Book Review: Lovable oddities of a bygone era
Summary: 5 Stars
The bygone days of steam-powered logging railways come back in this fascinating collection of B/W images.
As the title says, the locomotives are the protagonists, but many other details about the whole life of a logging railway in the Pacific Northwest manage to sneak in around the main subject - logging crews, base camps, service cars, rails and trestles - and of course the trees, both standing and felled, some quite awesome by their sheer size.
For the steam enthusiast, a visual feast: the logging locos were often quite off the beaten path - literally, of course, on their crude, temporary rails, but also in their design; several types of odd-looking engines were developed for the particular needs of this job, and rarely seen on mainline rails: all were different fron the conventional, side-rod driven locomotive and especially suited to sharp curves, uneven right-of-ways and, above all, unbelievable grades (happily, they very uniqueness made them survive until comparatively late in the steam era and some are to this day under steam in tourist service).
And for any other one, an interesting and entertaining trip down nostalgia lane; the well-written text complements nicely the images and makes the book enjoyable also to the newcomer.
Summary of Kinsey Photographer: The Locomotive Portraits
In the winter of 1970, Dave Bohn found the surviving negatives of Darius and Tabitha Kinsey. Bohn and his colleague, Rodolfo Petschek, initiated a long-term effort to reproduce in book form the magnificent Kinsey archive. Here you?ll find Darius and Tabitha Kinsey?s lifework on display in this volume featuring 53 superb photographs of the logging industry?s steam locomotives, historical essays by John Labbe on each locomotive and the logging operations it served, and excerpts from conversations with some of the oldtime engineers, firemen, and brakemen.Artists, A-Z Books
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