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The Center’s journal, Railroad Heritage®, and other publications fill a unique niche: using photographs and art to inform the public and rail enthusiasts alike about the influence of railroads on economic growth and development, popular culture, and the lives of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who built and maintain North America’s railroads. Excellent images and highly researched and thoughtful writing characterize our publications.

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Railroad Heritage No. 21, North American Railroad History in a Nutshell

In “North American Railroad History in a Nutshell,” a quick-and-easy illustrated guide, you will find abundant examples of the railroads’ role in the growth and economic life of the nation. You also will get a look at how railroads have influenced fine art, photography, travel, and popular culture.

Nutshell distills more than a thousand images on railroadheritage.org down to about thirty that cover everything from the beginnings of railroading in the U.S., illustrated with a copy of a daguerreotype of the locomotive Tioga, to the modern preservation movement with one of noted photographer David Plowden’s earliest photographs, a Canadian steam engine that now pulls excursion trains. It is a new and refreshing look at railroads, and a “must have” for all interested in their impact on the lives of everyone in North America. (48 pages, Color and B/W)

$19.95

Railroads and the American Industrial Landscape:
Ted Rose Paintings and Photographs

The exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, places Rose’s work in a broader historic context. The catalog 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. “Just as Rose’s original artwork did, the catalog does a fantastic job of conveying the dynamics of railroading,” Sayre C. Koss writes in “Recommended Reading” in Trains (September 2006). (68 pages, full-color, limited number available)

$22.95

Railroad Heritage No. 22, Jack Delano and Chicago Union Station

Railroad Heritage® 22, begins a series, “Faces of Railroading,” about Jack Delano and his portraits of people and railroads in preparation for an exhibition in Chicago. The the first installment features Delano's portraits of workers at Chicago Union Station, which he photographed primarily in 1943. The workers identified in the issue were a railroad family, and many of them had been working together since the station opened in 1925. Other highlights of the journal include color and black-and-white photos of the 2009 awards program, plus stories about the Center’s 2009 activities, the 2010 “Conversations about Photography” conference, and profiles of photographer Frank Barry and the designer of the Southern Pacific’s 1937 Daylight passenger train.

$7.95

Railroad Heritage No. 20, Walker Evans, American Communities, and the Railroad

Railroad Heritage® No. 20 features “Walker Evans, American Communities, and the Railroad” by Tony Reevy, an article based on his presentation at our 2008 conference. 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.” The issue also has our 2008 photo award winners in color on the cover and center pages from the theme "sense of place." Entrants to the 2008 award program responded with very high caliber images, resulting in a record number of awards. There’s also a photo-story about William Henry Jackson’s work for the Baltimore & Ohio exhibitions at two world’s fairs, and an announcement of a new inniative at railroadheritage.org.

$7.95

Railroad Heritage No. 19, Ted Rose: The Artist’s Early Photography

“Ted Rose: The Artist’s Early Photography,” Railroad Heritage® No. 19, focuses on the photographic accomplishments of Rose (1940-2002), known mostly for his stunning watercolors but who also was an excellent photographer as a youth and young man. It features 40 photographs, 37 of them by Rose, and one painting, plus 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, president of the Center. Between 1956 and 1962, Rose followed trains and rode the rails in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala. His black-and-white photographs taken during the journeys capture the last days of active steam railroading in America. Their quality also hints at an artistic impulse that was expressed in his painting. (36 pages, B/W)

$14.95

Railroad Heritage No. 18, Railroading Journeys

“Railroading Journeys,” Railroad Heritage® No. 18, is a 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. The 32-page issue has 59 photographs, 52 of them by Beebe or Clegg, some of them never before published. The issue considers their pictures afresh (each had a distinctive style), discusses some of the influences on their work, and defines their legacy. In their years of living in the West, beginning in 1950, Beebe and Clegg produced about thirty books, most of them devoted to railroading. Clegg’s sister, Ann Clegg Holloway, wrote the introduction. (32 pages, B/W)

$14.95

Railroad Heritage No. 17, Women in Railroading

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?” By 2007, it was clear that women were working at railroad jobs in many capacities; they and their roles just were not talked or written about. She calls her introduction “a little known bit of history about women who chose an unusual occupation and could sing, ‘I’ve been working on the railroad.’” The issue includes articles by Doug Riddell and Linda Grant Niemann. (24 pages, Color and B/W, limited number available)

$7.50

Railroad Heritage No. 14

“Iron Icon: The Railroad in American Art,” is a special 72-page issue of Railroad Heritage. The publication, in cooperation with the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis, features the papers given by the nine speakers, accompanied by many striking color and black-and-white images from the presentations. The cover is Willard F. Elms’ Land of the Pueblos (after Villa), about 1949, one of the last images in a Santa Fe poster campaign that for some 50 years featured the southwestern landscape and its native inhabitants. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation funded the symposium, held April 22-23, 2004, at the Barriger Library.

Professor John Stilgoe, describes No. 14 as "a solid scholarly demonstration that railroad-industry advertising rewards close scrutiny as art and that the railroad depicted in non-industry illustration rolls deep into national and regional history and visual culture." Stilgoe is author of Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene (1983). (72 pages, Color and B/W, limited number available)

$14.95

Railroad Heritage No. 13

“Representations of Railroad Work, Past and Present” (No. 13, 2005) takes a fresh look at the people who made and make trains run: their culture, their skills, and their unseen importance to American life. For this issue, special editor Mark W. Hemphill, former editor of Trains magazine and a former train dispatcher, with photo editor John Gruber, and a group of noted authors, photographers, and historians describe a previously unseen sensitivity to railroad work. Is railroading “just another job?” No. To the people who do it, railroading is a lifestyle, a brotherhood, a culture with its own language and identity. To the public, railroading is unknown territory. But through photography and art, the obscuring veil can be peeled back. This special issue of Railroad Heritage is not the end product of a new understanding of railroad work, but only the beginning. The North American Railway Foundation provided major funding. (38 pages, Color and B/W, limited number available)

$7.50

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