The Georgian Locomotive; Some elegant steam locomotive power in the South and Southwest, 1918-1945, an episode in American taste

New York: Weathervane Books. Presumed First Edition this publisher. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Dennis Critchlow (Jacket Design). xxi, [1], 89, [1] pages. Frontis. Foreword by Richard Janson, University of Vermont. Illustrations. Bibliography. A note about Locomotive Wheel Arrangements and Symbols and the Locomotive Builders. Damage to bottom of DJ and spine. Minor page soiling. Raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, Bryant attended Washington & Lee University and spent the last year of World War II in the US Navy. Starting out as a journalist with the Lynchburg News, he went on to the Bethlehem Globe Times, and the Savannah Evening Press before moving to New York where he spent over 25 years at W. W. Norton Publishers. Author of "The Georgian Locomotive" and other publications on trains, he was also co-editor with Henry Hope Reed of the "Classical America" series and served on the Board of Directors of the organization. The locomotives of the nineteen twenties and thirties in the Southern and Southeastern states were imposing and good to look at. They gave the railroads they belonged to color, an air of panache and a rather formidable sense of high quality. They lived until streamlining and the taste for the thirties modern began to modify them. The diesel locomotive brought them to an end. This book explores a neglected side of railroad history. Few works have explored locomotive architecture. It is the revival of classic style on North American railroads in the years between the first and second World Wars, and the last grand flourish of the steam locomotive, that the author writes about--the indigenous architecture of the Age of Steam.