SMOKE OVER OKLAHOMA - THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESTON GEORGE/Veenendaal Freight Trains Collins from 1949 through 1976

Collins from 1949 through 1976 are also included to complete the coverage from the Hudson River to western New York State

Southern Pacific

is presented to you in the same chronological order as it was recorded so you can experience the year’s activities just as if you were side-by-side with our rail journalist as he sought out the best locations and movements in this densely trafficked region

the photographs are accompanied by the recollections of many of the photographers represented

SMOKE OVER OKLAHOMA - THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESTON GEORGE/Veenendaal Freight Trains Collins from 1949 through 1976Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of steam locomotives. As depression gave way to world war, George kept taking pictures, now with a Graflex camera that could capture moving trains. In this first book devoted solely to Georges work, his black and white photographs constitute a striking visual documentary of steam driven railroading in its brief