Starlight On the Rails

The years between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s saw a marvellous flowering of railroad photography in America. Photographers vied with one another to record the passing scene. The most demanding technical efforts - often involving heroic set-ups of complex flash equipment - were devoted to capturing railroad operation at night. "Starlight on the Rails" is a contribution to a specific photographic history, a continuation of the story that fascinates so many readers of O. Winston Link's books. Here are many more styles, including experiments capturing the feeling of moving trains. This volume of photographs taken between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s offers a poetic glimpse of silent railroad stations, lonely motormen and the last great American steam engines.