Jim Shaughnessy Author

Jim Shaughnessy is one of the most influential forces that reshaped American railroad photography in the 1950s. He started shooting trains and the railroad environment in 1946 and is still active today. Shaughnessy’s work has appeared in over 100 books and has been featured in Trains, Railroad, Railfan and Classic Trains. He authored the seminal works Delaware & Hudson (1967) and The Rutland Road (1964), which remain in print. He was awarded a lifetime achievement award for photography from the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society in 1987. Kevin P. Keefe was editor in chief of Trains magazine from 1992 to 2000. Subsequently he was the publisher of Trains and vice president-editorial of its parent firm, Kalmbach Publishing Co., until he retired in 2016. He is a director of the Center for Railroad Photography and Art. His award-winning book Twelve Twenty-Five: The Life and Times of a Steam Locomotive, was published in 2015.