Year: 2020
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Winter 2021: Postcards, Hallock, Stanley
Steam into a new year with the spectacular winter photography of Ralph Hallock, featuring the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s Tennessee Pass with commentary by Mark W. Hemphill, in this issue’s cover story. Get inspired to keep in touch with “The Rise and Fall of the Railroad Postcard,” an in-depth history of railroad postcards by…
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The Iron Road to the Deep North: Japanese Railways of Hokkaido, Then and Now
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Victor Hand traveled to Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, in 1966 and 1971 in search of steam locomotives. Scott Lothes lived in Hokkaido from 2005 to 2007 where he taught English and rode trains all over the island. His presentation uses…
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Keep in touch with CRP&A postcards
In conjunction with an article in Railroad Heritage 2021:1 by Den Adler, “The Rise and Fall of the Railroad Postcard,” the Center has published a set of six postcards with images from our collections. In this time of limited contact and so much electronic communication, we want to encourage physical, tangible correspondence. Our postcards are…
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Wallace W. Abbey: A Life in Railroad Photography, presented by Kevin Keefe and Scott Lothes
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Kevin Keefe and Scott Lothes, co-writers and editors of the publication Wallace W. Abbey: A Life in Railroad Photography (Indiana University Press, 2018) come together to celebrate the life and work of a man who devoted a fifty-year career to…
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The Railroad and the Art of Place, David Kahler
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube In the late 1980s, David Kahler was deeply inspired by seeing an exhibition of O. Winston Link photographs. He soon began making annual trips to the West Virginia and eastern Kentucky coalfields, destinations that strongly resonated with his own aesthetic…