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

and Columbus

and quaint country branchlines are all to be found in this marvelous look back

Southern Pacific

and perpetual spring

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