[.ca] Railroading Around Hazard and Perry County (KY) (Images ... (ISBN 0738542733)

Great Set of Pictures, Mostly From One Photographer:
The town of Hazard in Perry country, Kentucky is one of the more isolated in the country. In the days before the construction of the railway travel was very difficult, basically only by river. In 1911 the railroad was coming to Hazard. Uncommonly the railroad hired John G. Kinner to photographically document the 1910 survey and the acquisition of the right-of-way for for the Lexington and Eastern Railway Company. He continued as the official photographer during the construction of the railroad. Now, almost a hundred years later, the director of the local museum has collected almost two hundred photographs to form the core of this book. As best I can tell, these represent the only collection where the photographs from a single photographer cover the advent of railroading. Only in the last few pages that cover more modern years have other photographs come in. This series of books from Arcadia tell the story of railroading in one community. They are photographic records of our history, and they are excellent