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Lädt ... Magnetic North: Canadian Steam in Twilightvon Roger Cook, Karl Zimmermann
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Magnetic North is an inspiring chronicle of the brief, bright moment when steam locomotives ran their final miles in Eastern Canada, a time when the certainty of their demise made their presence all the sweeter. From the moment Karl Zimmermann and Roger Cook packed their bags in May of 1958 and boarded a sleeper for Montreal, they were hooked on Canadian steam. They arrived just in time to see and record the end of an era. In a sense, Zimmermann and Cook have been collaborating on this book for 40 years. In carefully wrought essays and in photographs selected from among many hundreds made by the authors and other outstanding railway photographers, this book is a vision of classic steam railroading rendered with first-person immediacy. Exerpt from Magnetic North "With armstrong turntable, bucket coaling station, and two-stall enginehouse, La Malbaie reeked of small-time, steam-powered style; it was the epitome of old-fashioned railroading, still rich in humanity. It was labor-intensive to a fault, with stations sprouting train-order boards (and, inside, the operators or station agents to set them) and engine terminals where locomotives sometimes were turned by men with strong backs and strong arms and sometimes were fueled using derricks to wrestle hulking buckets to tender-top. If labor-intensive, it was also irresistible." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)385.0971Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Trains and Railroads Subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography North America CanadaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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By consulting railway time schedules, they are able to identify most trains in the photos as to where they were coming from and where they were going. Sometimes they asked railway workers for the information. They also had access to workshops and trains for behind the scenes photos and stories. Some of the most spectacular photos are those taken during winter.
The ending is sad as they describe the last runs made by trains in Quebec some of which they witnessed. Megantic is mentioned in several articles and there are several photos of the town of Megantic as it had a major marshaling yard. One photo shows a train leaving the yard to make a run at the grade to Nantes, the same grade an unmanned train swept down into the town in July 2013 killing 47 people and destroying the downtown with the resulting explosion.
A great book for train buffs. ( )