The Last Steam Railroad in America: From Tidewater to Whitetop (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)

New York, New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1995. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are very gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION! Inscribed and dated on the title page by the photographer (O. Winston Link)! Black cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine.144 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color photographs and illustrations! Black and white pictorial endpapers. "Lyrical and dramatic photographs and text celebrate the Norfolk and Western Railway and the communities through which the last commercially-operated steam engines in America traveled. In the mid-1950s the Norfolk and Western Railway began converting its operations from steam to diesel. Although the railroad ran some of the finest steam locomotives in the world and was a major coal-hauler, it decided to abandon steam. It was the last American railroad to do so. Coincidentally with the N & W decision, photographer O. Winston Link began to pursue a decade-old vision of photographing steam railroading at night using synchronized flash. A chance assignment in Virginia brought him to the N & W and for the next five years Link traveled up and down its divisions photographing the trains, the towns, and the people who worked on the railroad and lived beside it..............." (SIGNED FIRST EDITION).. Signed by the Photographer. First Edition. Black Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by O. Winston Link (photographer. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.