A. Aubrey bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a baltimore sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This book is his archive of train photographs chronicling mid-20th-century rail transportation and the people working on the railroad. Bodines images of steam and diesel locomotives document an era passed. Herein are contained award-winning pictures, currently popular pictures, historically interesting pictures, and pictures unseen until this volume. These images demonstrate bodines pictorialist and modernist photographic eye for trains and railroads in motion and at rest. Bodine published four books, wrote articles, judged photographic salons, won awards from all over the world, lectured across northeast america, and held down a full-time job at a major metropolitan newspaper. This is the fourth bodine picture book assembled by his daughter, jennifer.