RAILROAD SHUTTERBUG; JIM FREDRICKSON'S NORTHERN PACIFIC by Fredrickson, Jim - 2000

Pullman: WSU Press, 2000. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Oblong 8vo. SIGNED by author to title page, with inscription dated 2000. dustjacket with light rubs, light edgewear. 160pp w/index. [ref. CNL2.109].

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Pullman, Washington, USA: WSU Press, 2000. 1st Edition-1st Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 160 Pages with Colour Illustrations & Black/White Photos. Practically growing up with a camera in hand, Jim Fredrickson of Tacoma, Washington took his first picture of a steam locomotive in 1936. In a few years, railroad men were regularly seeing the "kid with the camera" alongside the tracks and in the rail yards. Then one day in 1943, one of the men said, "You're always hanging around here, kid, you might as well go to work." The chief dispatcher at Tacoma's Union Station hired the sixteen-year-old high school student to serve as a "callboy," telephoning conductors, brakemen, engineers, and firemen an hour-and-a-half in advance of when they were scheduled for duty. Thus began Fredrickson's thirty-nine year career with the Northern Pacific Railway's telegraph and dispatching departments. Fredrickson continued to take exceptional photographs - his many pictures depict the last great glories of the… Read More

Washington State University Press, 2000-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!