Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg
…on display at the California State Railroad Museum. Trains collection While those in the book industry credit Lucius Beebe with virtually inventing the railroad photography book, Beebe himself did not…. […]
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Beebe-Morgan Letters: Seeking publicity and sharing book publishing details
Lucius Beebe-David Morgan correspondence project Between 1961 and 1966, prolific railroad book author Lucius Beebe and Trains editor David P. Morgan… […]
Lucius Beebe remembered
…collection Beebe was born Dec. 9, 1902, in Wakefield, Mass. His father, Junius Beebe, was successful in several businesses, including leather, gas, and banking. Beebe grew up on the family’s… […]
Beebe and Morgan on Al Perlman and the ’20th Century Limited’
Color dust jacket of Lucius Beebe‘s book, “Mr. Pullman’s Elegant Palace Car”. Title page and spread of “When Beauty Rode The Rails”, by Lucius Beebe. Cover of Lucius Beebe‘s book,… […]
The Virginia City embodies the legacy of Beebe and Clegg
…copy in the observation lounge. Lucius Beebe at his writing desk inside the observation lounge of Virginia City. Classic Trains collection Here, in his outrageous rococo style, is Beebe’s take… […]
Morgan-Beebe File: Lucius bemoans ‘criminal’ cuts to passenger service — July 1961
Lucius Beebe-David Morgan correspondence project Between 1961 and 1966, prolific railroad book author Lucius Beebe and Trains editor David P. Morgan exchanged a flurry of letters,… […]
When Beauty Rode the Rails ‘stinks on toast’ as a book title
…any merit in the second line? Lucius Letter reply from David Morgan to Lucius Beebe: October 4, 1961 Mr. Lucius Beebe 804 Vista Road Hillsborough, California Hello, Lucius: I can’t… […]
Your Favorite Railroad Books
…sturdy, well-run – coal traffic in abundance, general freight of all kinds, and some of the nicest-looking thru-passenger trains one could imagine. Jim Young, Martinez, Ga. Lucius Beebe’s “Mixed Train… […]
A sandwich on the house
…of Parkdale, West Toronto, and Weston were put behind. Then 25 entered its element, puffing along the single iron of the Mactier Subdivision, in pursuit, as author Lucius Beebe would… […]
Book Review: Guide to North American Diesel Locomotives
…guard” railfans held the opinion that the hobby of train watching would gradually die out concurrently with the demise of steam. In 1963, Lucius Beebe, author and bon vivant, wrote… […]
Honoring the legacy of Ashtabula
…me when I was 9. Lucius Beebe’s “Hear the Train Blow” was a massive scrapbook of American railroad history, full of the author’s outrageous prose and uncanny skill at digging… […]
75 years ago in Trains: Last run for the Virginia & Truckee
…to take a last ride on “the little train to yesterday.” The private car Gold Coast, property of historians Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. which had made the V &… […]
