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Chasing Fire in Steel: One Man's Global Adventure in Search of American Locomotives

by Paul Stephanus
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781773421308
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Paul Stephanus Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Paul Stephanus Books
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: USD 62.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1112 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial

With major steam operations all but extinct in North America by the late 1960s, photographer Paul Stephanus embarked on a global journey to track down and photograph American and American-style steam locomotives still in operation.

Through more than 330 color and black-and-white photographs, Chasing Fire in Steel chronicles his journey across 28 countries and three continents.

Stephanus' photos show that although some of the world's greatest steam locomotives were built in America, they operated all around the world, in both war and peacetime, across vast plains and up steep mountainsides, carrying passengers, cargo-and on occasion, photographers.

Includes photos of rare steam locomotives in Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, Kenya, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia from 1967-1973. Many sample pictures can be seen on eBay USA in ooptrains listing for Chasing Fire In Steel.

Be prepared to feel the rumble and smell the smoke as you take this amazing journey around the world with Paul Stephanus chasing fire in steel!

Stephanus, Paul: - Paul Stephanus' exposure to steam locomotives began even before his birth in 1941, when his pregnant mother and father would walk to the Montclair, NJ railroad station to see steam powered trains. Stephanus began photographing steam in the late 1950's with his brother while still in school. As an adult, he joined the US Army as a photographer and travelled across Europe from 1961-64, then in 1966 travelled west to Viet Nam to cover the war as a civilian photojournalist. Stephanus' pictures have been published by UPI, AP, LIFE, Look, Parade, New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, and newspapers and publications around the world. After leaving Viet Nam in 1969, Stephanus completed the first of his two westward round-the-world trips photographing steam locomotives (among other things), followed by a second trip in 1972-73. The photos from these trips form the basis of his latest book, Chasing Fire in Steel.

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