Year: 2017
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Winter 2018: Evanston Roundhouse, William G. Gordon
For the first issue of 2018, photographer and writer Joel Jensen provides an in-depth look at the restoration and repurposing of the former Union Pacific roundhouse in Evanston, Wyoming, a remarkable example of a community embracing its railroad heritage. Photographer Wayne Depperman reflects on his trackside “friends,” the motor car indicators, which also took him…
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Fall 2017: Richard Koenig, Political Cartoons
Photographer Richard Koenig reflects on “Growing up in Railroad Vacuum” and the value of mentorships with his story and photographs from Indiana and Illinois in the late 1970s. Koenig now teaches art at Michigan’s Kalamazoo College and is working on a project about the original transcontinental railroad. Mark Aldrich, a retired economics professor from Smith…
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Summer 2017: J. Craig Thorpe, Conversations, Digitizing
Artist J. Craig Thorpe presents his work and art’s role in portraying the future of railroading in his cover story, “Painting the Possible.” Thorpe was a featured presenter at Conversations 2016, and we are delighted to provide this extension of his highly-regarded talk at the conference. In an expanded edition of the regular “Out of…
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David Kahler’s book lecture and reception
Railroad photography came to Milwaukee as Center board member David Kahler presented his book, “The Railroad and The Art of Place,” published by the Center earlier this year. Graciously hosted by the Milwaukee Art Museum, the lecture, reception, and book signing brought in people from all over interested in Kahler’s landscape photography. Be sure to…
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Spring 2017: Normandin, Heckman, Award Winners
Artist Adam Normandin, a featured presenter at Conversations 2017, is the subject of a profile by David C. Lester. We offer a glimpse of the work of Canadian Pacific photographer Joseph William Heckman, who worked for the railway’s engineering department from 1898 to 1915. A new book by Ralph Beaumont covers Heckman’s photography extensively, and…