Month: September 2021

  • Weather Effects: 2022 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program

    [tabby title=”Theme”]Theme: Weather Effects  Predawn Pikes Peak State Park, Iowa 2017. Photograph by Todd Halamka.   The 2022 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program theme is Weather Effects. When one takes a moment to think about what it takes to run a railroad anywhere in the world, chances are in one form or another,…

  • Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography, presented by Bon French

    Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, October 4 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography, demonstrates that the railroad industry—like ethnic, religious, and neighborhood enclaves—fostered its own communities and networks. Through the stories of the lives of the men and women of…

  • Railroads and the Moving Image

     For as long as people have been making motion pictures, they’ve been recording railroads. Just a few years after the invention of the first motion picture camera, French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière produced one of the first commercial films in the world, The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station—it featured a train…

  • Fall 2021: Awards, Videography, Harwood, Chicago

    Our Fall 2021 issue brings you an autumn-themed gallery of recent highlights from our collections processing efforts, including Jim McClellan’s cover photograph from the Denver & Rio Grande Western. Inside, feature articles spotlight our 2021 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Award Winners, showcase Herb Harwood’s photography, embark on a tour of “The Railroad and the…