Highball: A Pageant of Trains

by Lucius Beebe

Book Overview

Hardcover with dust jacket. The dust jacket shows light rubbing, minor/normal shelf and edge wear. The boards are yellow and black cloth boards with black lettering on the spine. The edges and corners... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517004208
• ISBN13: 9780517004203
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Classic Among Railroad Books

I received this book as a gift from my Late Aunt back in 1968. To this day, I still occasionally get it out to peruse it. The black and white photographs of the freight trains and passenger consists, particularly the mixtures of types of cars and locomotives, all add up to make this book unique among its peers.

One of My First Train Books, and the Best

At 38 years of age, I don't feel I'm old enough to say things like "they just don't make 'em like they used to," but I'll say that about this book.This was the second train book I got as a young boy, after a Christmas present book on train wrecks. I've bought quite a few others over the years, but this one remains supreme for me, I guess because you just can't find what lies between its pages in real life anymore.All black and white photography, the images in this book are exceptional, not because most of them are the good ol' standard 3/4 shot, but because they capture an age, a time and a grace that seems almost haunting today. Some of the photography from the west screams out a loneliness that only a skilled and experienced photographer can achieve.The text also provides a desirable companion to the photography, explaining the location, the railroad, or the activity in a way that truly complements the imagery.Once I pick up the book, I find it hard to put down until I've gone through the entire thing cover to cover, just one more time. I don't know if this book will ever be in reprint, but if you can get ahold of it, snap it up. They don't make 'em like this anymore.