Month: March 2022

  • The Art of Railroading from the Grohmann Museum Collection

    Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, February 28 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Now Available on YouTube James Kieselburg, director of the Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) will share a survey of railroad images, including prints, photographs, paintings, and sculpture, from the museum’s collection.  …

  • Postcards from my Seventy-Two Year Vacation – A Conversation with Mitch Markovitz

    Tuesday, February 8, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, February 7 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube Painter Mitch Markovitz will discuss his lifelong love of railroad art from his earliest memories of visiting the Illinois Central’s Grand Crossing station with his mother to running trains by the same…

  • Winter 2022: Stockholm Metro, Horseshoe Curve, Old Paper Art

    $7.95 Go underground with Emily Moser to explore the colorful world of Sweden’s cave stations in the cover story of our Winter 2022 issue. The public art installations of the Stockholm Metro are unlike any other subway stations in the world. Inside, take a modern-day look at Norfolk Southern’s former Pennsylvania Railroad main line over…

  • David P. Morgan’s Milwaukee, presented by Kevin P. Keefe

    Tuesday, December 7, 2021 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, December 6 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube In a program centered around the late 1940s through the early 1960s, we take a tour of the Milwaukee area as famed Trains Magazine Editor David P. Morgan might have experienced it, from the early…

  • Above, Aboard & Beyond: Unique Perspectives by Rail

    Saturday, November 13, 2021, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm (U.S. Central Time) Join the CRP&A for an upcoming weekend event on Zoom featuring three fantastic photographers exploring unique perspectives by rail. Download the program HERE Jennifer Al-Beik Finding My Track: Rail Photography as a Creative Outlet Jennifer Al-Beik shares perspectives as a newcomer to the…

  • 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

    $7.95 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…