Plowden, David. The Iron Road: A Portrait of American Railroading. Photographs by David Plowden.

Four Winds, 1978. First edition, first printing, near fine with very good protected dust jacket that has two short edge tears and is price clipped with a price sticker on front flap. 90 pages with numerous black-and-white photos of steam trains, workers, railroad stations and related subjects. Text by Richard Snow, Senior Editor with American Heritage Publishing Company.  Born in 1932, David Plowden is an American photographer who has made historical documentary photographs of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands, and small towns. Plowden has produced 20 books and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. Early in his career, he worked as an Assistant Trainmaster for the Great Northern Railway. His previous books of black-and-white photographs included Farewell to Steam, Floor of the Sky, Bridges: Spans of North America, The Hand of Man on America, and Commonplace.  Increasingly uncommon in the first printing.