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Quick-and-easy illustrated guide to the history of railroad preservation in North America. Entries summarize the movement from 1828 to 2011, with examples ranging from the obvious to myriad intangibles. Also includes a gallery of young railroad photographers with an eye to preservation topics.

$19.95, 48 pages, color and b/w

Quick-and-easy illustrated guide to the history of railroading in North America. Abundant examples of the railroads’ role in the growth and economic life of the nation, plus how railroads have influenced fine art, photography, travel, and popular culture.

$19.95, 48 pages, color and b/w

Catalog from the exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, placing Rose’s work in a broader historic context. Includes all 27 watercolor paintings and 22 photographs that appeared in the exhibition, along with essays by museum director and curator Curtis L. Carter and writer/artist Jeff Brouws.

$22.95, 68 pages, full-color.

In-depth look at renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's railroad stations, including photos and drawings. Winners of 2011 photography awards program. Obituaries of noted railroad photographers and collectors Arthur D. Dubin, William Kratville, William D. Middleton, Ryan Schoenfeldt and Richard Steinheimer. Jack Delano photograph of Santa Fe crew.

$7.95, 24 pages, color and b/w.

Profile of Axel Zwingenberger, world-renouned boogie-woogie and German steam photographer; overview of presenters at 2011 “Conversations” conference; author James Valle's collaboration with photographer Jack Delano; rail worker sculpture by Rich Harney inspired by a photograph; honor roll of 2010 donors.

$7.95, 20 pages, color and b/w.

In-depth look at Olive Dennis, civil engineer and designer for the Baltimore & Ohio from 1920 to 1954; winners of 2010 awards program; interview with John H. White, Jr., past transporation curator at the Smithsonian; also coverage of the record-breaking 2010 “Conversations” conference, Plowden exhibition, and members’ survey.

$7.95, 20 pages, color and b/w.

Profile of Ted Benson and Tom Tayor, California photographers and presenters at the 2010 “Conversations” conference. Industrial designer Otto Kuhler; rescued mural at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen headquarters in Cleveland; David Plowden’s new book and exhibition; honor rool of 2009 donors.

$7.95, 20 pages, color and b/w.

Photographer Jack Delano and his portraits of railroad workers at Chicago Union Station, which he photographed primarily in 1943. Other highlights include the 2009 awards program, the Center’s 2009 activities, and profiles of photographer Frank Barry and the designer of the Southern Pacific’s 1937 Daylight passenger train.

$7.95

Author Tony Reevy writes that “Evans (1903-75) was one of the most noted and original American photographers of the twentieth century, but has not yet received sufficient recognition for his works that focus on the American railroad.” Also 2008 photo award winners and William Henry Jackson’s work for the Baltimore & Ohio.

$7.95

Photographic accomplishments of Rose (1940-2002), known mostly for his stunning watercolors but also an excellent photographer as a youth and young man. Essays by Robert Ewing, director emeritus of the Fine Arts Museum of the Museum of New Mexico; Robert Ludwig, who often traveled with Rose to photograph the trains; and John Gruber.

$14.95, 36 pages, b/w.

Special retrospective issue devoted to the life and times of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, whose books changed the way Americans think about--and look at--railroads and railroading. 59 photographs, 52 of them by Beebe or Clegg, some never before published. Clegg’s sister, Ann Clegg Holloway, wrote the introduction.

$14.95, 32 pages, b/w.

To uncover the story of women in railroading was a methodical and slow undertaking spanning more than 20 years, guest editor Shirley Burman writes in “Where Were the Women?” The issue includes articles by Doug Riddell and Linda Grant Niemann.

$7.50, 24 pages, color and b/w.

Special issue in cooperation with the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis, featuring the papers given by the nine speakers, accompanied by many striking color and black-and-white images from the presentations.

$14.95, 72 pages, color and b/w.

Fresh look at the people who made and make trains run. Special editor Mark W. Hemphill, former editor of Trains and a former train dispatcher, and photo editor John Gruber present a previously unseen sensitivity to railroad work. The North American Railway Foundation provided major funding.

$7.50, 38 pages, color and b/w.