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Besides the 1795 settling of what later became Hazard, Kentucky, and the establishment of Perry County in 1821, no other event has had the historical significance of the coming of the railroad. Until the track-laying train came through the tunnel north of town and stopped briefly for a celebration, Hazard was landlocked, and the townspeople had never heard the earthshaking sound of the train whistle. Before the railroad, the river was their road. The only few household conveniences known to these isolated people were laboriously brought up the river on push boats. Many materials used to build the railroad were also transported on flatboats. As a bridge and tunnel were built, and a passage was made for the engine that carried the railroad ties, John G. Kinner documented the change with his camera. Images of Rail: Railroading Around Hazard and Perry County features John G. Kinner's vivid and historic\photographs and others from the Bobby Davis Museum collection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1784064 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-24
• Released on: 2006-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Martha Hall Quigley, a native of Hazard, is the director of the Bobby Davis Museum and Park. She is also the author of Images of America: Hazard and Perry County, published in 2000.

Customer Reviews

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