If you’ve ever been looking through a book of railroad photography and thought to yourself “I’d love to have a print of that picture,” then this is for you! This disc combines a book of railroad photography and information with a railroad photography disc. The book is in an electronic PDF, or Adobe Acrobat format. The book can be viewed on any tablet, computer, and even most smart phones. iPads and iPhones will require the free iBooks app to view.
Starting in the forties and moving forward through the present day, this e-book takes a look at steam locomotives in the United States. Through 260 pages and nearly 500 photographs, locomotives are viewed from the late steam era through today’s 21st Century Steam program on the Norfolk Southern.
The book is organized in chapters covering the late steam era, early post dieselization operations, the late sixties and seventies, heritage railroads, the heyday of excursions in the 80s and early 90s, and steam in the 21st Century.
Some of the notable operations covered include Burlington’s 4960, the Southern Railway and Norfolk Southern steam program and most of the locomotives the programs used, Union Pacific’s locomotives 844 and 3985, Steamtown and its place in steam preservation and operation, the American Freedom Train, the Chessie Steam Special and the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge. Also covered is the Crab Orchard & Egyptian, a common carrier that stuck with steam until 1986. All that and a WHOLE lot more, along with informative captions and chapter introductions.
All but a handful of photos included in the e-book are also included on the disc, presented in folders sorted by chapter and organized by page number. Any photo in the book is easy to find. Photos are presented as 200dpi JPEG images, and can easily be printed up to 8x10 for photo albums or framing. Depending on the make and model, some DVD and Blu-Ray players can also play the images on your T.V.
The e-book can be opened directly from the disc on your computer and the contents can be saved to your hard drive, tablet or smart phone by dragging and dropping the files. Files can be transferred to an iPad or iPhone through the iTunes application.
Considering the average photo disc may contain 100 images or less and run $15 to $20, the $15.00 retail price is a bargain for the photography alone!
$15.00 includes shipping and handling.
Shipped by priority mail.