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Legends of Steam by Colin Garratt w/ dust jacket
Legends of Steam by Colin Garratt
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1998
256 pages
CONTENTS
Introduction6An Indian country railway72Centenarians The oldest steam locomotives14British Mogul locomotives76Finland Scandinavian stronghold of steam18A railway reborn Eritrea78Remnants of the Spanish Vintage20American staples Confederations & Sante Fes82Dominant for two decades The Atlantics22The dragons of Sugar Island84American classics in Cuba24A lost heritage London & North Western Railway86The Ultimate in American steam28Mountain Climbing Rack and pinion railways88Legacy of a chequered history30Creating the commuter Suburban trains90Supreme for thirty years Classic British 4-4-0s32Hard workers for the shunting yardSteam on the Veldt34Humpers and bankers94Fireless locomotives38Rediscovered relics of the Azores98Riding the iron horse Steam in the blood40Building the world's last steamArteries of industry42locomotives Tangshan100Early American classics Outside cylinder 4-4-0s44Javan sugar fields102Dramatic industrial performersThe 10-wheeler of American folklore106Slag-tipping engines46Sunlight, smoke and shadowVeteran locomotives of World War I48Inside a large locomotive depot108Veteran locomotives of World War II50Echoes of the Raj 1903112A 1930s streamlined superstar The Hiawatha54Echoes of the Raj 1920s114Locomotive graveyards56Standard designs of post-war India118Charm of the narrow gauge train60The romance of the night train120Badges of industry Worksplates64Steam in the snow124The demise of Pakistan's Edwardians66Chinese Dragons128Singularly beautiful Outstanding express engines68Mikados A great British export130Kaisers of the tracks Prussian locomotives70The streamlined age132Working the coalfields of Assam136Fireworks in the night sky196The Mountains Built for power138Moving the freight Consolidations200British classics of Uruguay140The Dodo of Atacama The last Kitson Meyer202Steam trams around the world142Disasters, wrecks and mishaps204Sunsets and railway photography144American's ubiquitous Moguls206The majestic creations of Karl GoldsdorfTurkish delight Home of exotic engines208Austria's engineer extraordinaire148The world's last all-steam main line210Russia's glorious days of steamClassic world 10-wheelers212Soviet locomotives152Along the pilgrim route to Mecca214
Sentinels Economical, hardworking and flexible156Les Belles Machines French Pacific locomotives 218
The world's most numerous locomotive158American Superpower220The trusty British drudgeScrapyards222Inside-cylinder 0-6-Os162Pensioned off From main line to industry226Workhorse of the logging railways Shays164Sankong Bridge230Locomotive repair and restoration168Phantom engines232The ghost that refused to die Mallet No. 7170Wheels of industry Industrial locomotives236The fabulous Garratts Evolutionary offshoots172German Pacifics Mainstay of expresses240Shunter locomotive types176Birthplace of a locomotive Datong, China242Heavy freight 2-10-0s180Mastodons America's heavy-duty freight power244Tribes, Forts and GovernorsThe relics of Sennar Junction246Gold Coast names184The growth of the Mallets248American idea, Russian ideal188Industrial workhorses of China250Rivalry across the border190The Mikados Maids of all work252Express tanks around the world192The Dehri on Sone Light Railway194
INTRODUCTION
HALF A MEADOW away from the studios of Milepost 921/2, nestling in the trees, is the Victorian bridge from which I watched my first trains over half a century ago. Steam trains were going to last forever; the first diesels and electrics simply added variety - an innocent belief in a blissful childhood through which locomotives of every shape, size, family and vintage roared, wheezed and shrieked.
Then, one morning in 1955, the magic was shattered when my father showed me the headlines of the Daily Telegraph announcing the British Railways Modernization Plan under which steam was to be phased out. But steam was at the heart of Britain's transport; experts stated that it could not possibly disappear before the end of the century. But they were wrong; the decimation of Britain's 20,000-strong steam fleet was destined to occur within just thirteen years. The magic was shattered and the most animated of man's creations - which cast a spell for a million happy childhoods - disappeared from our midst.
With the dying steam locomotive came the rise of motorways and the move towards a road-based economy. Line closures began which culminated in the devastation of the Beeching years in the mid-1960s, when upwards of 50 per cent of Britain's railway network was closed in an act of irreparable social mischief.
The precedent for all this had been set in America, where airlines, cars and heavy trucking had greatly reduced the nation's dependence on railways. There, part of the railways' attempts to compete and retain whatever traffic it could, was to dieselize, and long before British Railways' Modernization Programme was conceived, the American steam locomotive had been largely consigned to history. It was evident that following the lead of the West, country after country would ultimately declare against steam, and when the last British locomotive ran in August 1968 it was obvious that a world-wide revolution was under way, not just in motive power but also in modes of transport as well.
It was then that I made the decision to abandon a career in marketing to document the last steam locomotives of the world. Someone had to do it. The steam locomotive had been the heart-beat of the Industrial Revolution and Britain's greatest technological gift to mankind. From its very beginnings it provided a source of endless fascination; it was such an animated and flamboyant a part of our heritage that it could not and should not be allowed to vanish into oblivion without someone making a visual record of how the epoch came to an end.
Today, thirty years later, some fifty countries have been covered in three decades, during which my work has always been a desperate race against time. In producing this book, my brief from the publisher was to make it the finest visual tribute to the steam train ever published, and I am proud to include a few pictures from Ron Ziel of New York and A.E. `Dusty' Durrant of South Africa, both world names as experts on the legend of steam. I am also fortunate to have combined with railway artist Terry Hadler, whose work appears interwoven with the photographs.
For thirty years Colin Garratt has been professionally documenting the last steam locomotives of the world. He has mounted expeditions to some forty countries embracing all continents in a desperate race against time. Little more than 6,000 steam locomotives remain active world-wide.
less than one-third of what Britain alone had as recently as the 1950s.
The pictures are grouped into themes that reflect the wonder of the world of steam in the twentieth century. They combine many of Colin Garratt's previously unpublished photographs, the evocative work of railway artist Terry Hadler, pictures from such world authorities as A. E. Durrant and Ron Ziel as well as mono-chrome pictures of great historical value from the Milepost library.
Written by a world expert with firsthand experience of all aspects of the world steam scene, Legends of Steam will appeal to everyone interested in railways and photography. This unique book is the most exciting visual tribute to the Age of Steam ever published.
Colin Garratt has written and illustrated over fifty books on railways, photography and travel, and regards this volume to be his finest work to date.
Apart from professionally documenting the last Steam Locomotives of the World, Colin is the Director of Milepost 921/2, the multi-media production company, publisher and picture library for the railway industry.
Milepost's studios are in a Georgian farmhouse set in idyllic surroundings amid the Leicestershire countryside. The studios are located immediately alongside Milepost 921/2 on the Midland Main Line, only a few hundred yards from the Victorian bridge from which Colin watched his first train as a child in 1949.
Colin is a noted lecturer and has toured several audio-visual theatre shows including Britain's Railway, a 12-projector multi-image presentation made for the British Railways Board.
Colin Garratt is a Canon Eos professional and exclusively uses Agfachrome film.
Apart from his professional interests, Colin is a former band leader and a student of New Orleans Jazz. Other interests embrace art, ornithology, politics and the appreciation of fine cigars.
Colin lives with his wife Carol and young daughter Marie-Louise, who is named after the former LMS Princess Royal Class Pacific No. 6206.
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