Year: 2019

  • Winter 2020: British Columbia, railroad art, and the Harlowton depot

    The Winter 2020 issue of Railroad Heritage is an expanded, 72-page issue that focuses on the West. The cover story by Todd Halamka is the latest in our “Railroads and the Art of Place” series and examines the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia. Justin Franz reports on “Hear the Whistle Blow: Art of the Railway,”…

  • Do you have orders for us?

    Adapting train orders forthe Center’s Legacy Society Soo Line relief operator Tony Kunst “hoops up” a train order to a freight train heading west at Mundelein, Illinois, on November 10, 1962. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, Abbey-05-079-11 The Center for Railroad Photography & Art is built upon the legacy of railroading. The year 2019 was…

  • The Center Honors John Gruber (founder, 1936-2018) with local exhibition Faces of Railroading at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin

    Faces of Railroading: The Making of Madison and Dane County is currently on display in the Art Court at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin from August 6, 2019 to January 26, 2020. The exhibition looks at the historic role railroaders played in the development of Dane County, Wisconsin, home of the Center for…

  • Fall 2019: Bennett’s art, Swiss narrow gauge, Zimmermann’s worldwide photography

    The fall 2019 issue features a cover story spotlighting artist Gil Bennett, a presenter at Conversations 2019. Karl Zimmermann shares his worldwide photography, which is coming to the Center’s Railroad Heritage Visual Archive. Editor Scott Lothes presents some of his recent photography from Switzerland and his take on “The Art of Place,” a new column…

  • The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb

    J. Parker Lamb broke new ground in railroad photography. His exceptional collection came to the Center for Railroad Photography & Art in 2015, and his work is now the subject of a book, published by the Center. The text comes from Kevin P. Keefe and Fred W. Frailey. Frailey wrote a foreword that presents Lamb’s…