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U.S. as a graduate student, professor and writer with his wife, his family and a succession of cameras. Through 320 pages of fine black-and-white pho- tos taken over three decades, readers are invited to come with him on, as the subtitle says, “A Photographic Odys- sey.” It is a trip worth taking. While the author has pointed his
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Off the Main Line, a Photo- graphic Odys- sey, by Don L. Hofsommer, pub- lished by Indi- ana University Press, Office of Scholarly Pub-
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lishing, Herman B. Wells Library 350, 1320 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405. Softcover, 320 9½″×8½″ pages; $55.00; e-book $45.99 (http://iupress.
indiana.edu). Part of Indiana University’s Rail-
roads Past & Present series, Off the Main Line follows Don Hofsommer’s journey through places and time as he moved about the central part of the
lens at enough busy mainlines to fill more than one book and photo exhibi- tion, Off the Main Line fulfills its title by exploring secondary mainlines and busy branchlines between roughly 1950 and the early 1980’s. Instead of mile-long freights, we have more mod- est ones, though many do fill the viewfinder all the way back to the hori- zon. And, yes, there are also photos of a single Geep hauling one boxcar and a caboose on weed-grown track, especial- ly in the last chapters of the book. Giv- en the years and geography covered, that is to be expected. What we have in this volume is a re- markable and valuable record of what trains looked like during what could arguably be called the real transition era in American railroading, the mid- to-late nineteen fifties to about 1980. Looking back, the conversion from steam to diesel in the U.S. was fast and abrupt. The two forms of motive power did not share the rails for long, really just a half-dozen years or so after
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