Year: 2022

  • Winter 2023: Film’s return, Bachman, Gruber, Watts, and more

    Film is making a comeback and the Winter 2023 issue of Railroad Heritage is your guide to this developing trend! Highlights include: If you don’t receive it already, join the Center and have four issues delivered to your mailbox each year. SOLD OUT

  • Zoom program: The Lady Engineer and the Train – Remembering Olive W. Dennis and The Cincinnatian

    Join Sharon Harwood in an immersive experience aboard the first run of the B&O’s Cincinnatian passenger train in January 1947. City officials, press, and railroad executives gathered for ribbon-cutting ceremonies in Cincinnati’s Union Terminal and the Washington, D.C., Union Station as the B&O Railroad presented its new daylight luxury streamliner. The Cincinnatian would become one of the most admired trains of…

  • The Role of Technology: 2023 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program

    The 2023 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program theme is The Role of Technology. This year’s theme will explore how technology has shaped—and continues to inform— how railroads operate, look and perform across time, place and season. Photographers are encouraged to visually interpret the theme expressing how technology impacts the evolving nature of railroads.   Participants are welcome…

  • Zoom program: Shooting the Diesel That Did it, presented by Kevin Keefe

    The debut of Electro-Motive Division’s FT freight locomotive in 1939 and 1940 was a watershed for the railroad industry – the steam locomotive was on its way out. The FT’s first public appearances gave both EMD and the Santa Fe Railway a chance to show off their promotional muscle, and photographs would tell the tale. In…

  • Fall 2022: Steinheimer, Awards, and more

    The newly arrived Richard Steinheimer Collection headlines the Fall 2022 issue of Railroad Heritage…with plenty more great photography and stories, plus news, updates, and no ads! Highlights include: There’s also an in-depth report about “Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography” at the Historic Pullman Foundation plus more on all of the Center’s traveling exhibitions and online…