Month: March 2022

  • Following the Golden Spike: Time, Place, and Change Along the First Transcontinental Railroad

    Drake Hokanson Tuesday, August 18, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Terrace, Utah, showing ties left in place on the original Promontory transcontinental route. Drake Hokanson.   Join artist Drake Hokanson, contributing author and photographer to the Center’s publication After Promontory, in a re-photography trip along the original Union Pacific…

  • An Evening With The Winners of the 2020 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program: John Troxler & Steven Chen

    John E. Troxler and Steven Chen won first prizes in the 2020 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program in the black-and-white and color categories, respectively.   Join us in a conversation about their photography on Tuesday, July 14, 2020 from 7:00-8:00 PM (US Central Time) on the Cisco Webex.   Available now on YouTube   This is a…

  • In The Studio With Adam Normandin: Living With Trains And Life With Art

    Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Available now on Youtube Join artist Adam Normandin in an exploration of his work, influences, and studio. Normandin is a contemporary realist painter living and working in Los Angeles. His paintings depict undoctored freight train cars as they appear in yards, often covered in…

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: Fall conference

    Due to the ongoing concerns and challenges surrounding the global health situation, we are rescheduling Conversations Northeast at the University of Connecticut from September 19, 2020, to a Saturday to be determined in Fall 2021. We are now planning to offer an online conference on Saturday, September 19. Registrations will open on June 29. Stay…

  • Summer 2020: Maps, Utah, Alban’s paintings, BNSF in Texas

    $7.95 Explore the art of railway and transit maps in the Summer 2020 issue’s cover story by Justin Franz in Railroad Heritage. Three additional feature articles await you. Mark W. Hemphill looks at the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s main line in Utah through the lenses of two talented photographers: George L. Beam and Otto…

  • Spring 2020: Botkin’s worldwide steam, British art, advertising and photography

    $7.95 Travel around the world with photographer William E. Botkin in his quest for evocative black-and-white photographs of steam locomotives with the cover story of the Spring 2020 issue of Railroad Heritage. Inside, you can also learn what it takes to make a living as a railway artist with a glimpse into the life and…

  • Archives and Preservation resources

    We hosted an archives and preservation Q&A with Adrienne Evans, our archivist, on Tuesday evening, May 19. Adrienne fielded dozens of questions about our collections and best practices for the archiving and preservation of analog as well as digital photographs. More than 130 people tuned in live, and you can watch a recording of the…

  • CRP&A Archives and Preservation Q&A

    Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central) Hosted by Adrienne Evans, CRP&A Archivist on Cisco Webex Registration is closed. CRP&A Archivist Adrienne Evans will answer your questions! Curious about the basics of photography archiving and preservation? Submit your questions to Adrienne to expand your knowledge and to learn more about becoming a better caretaker…

  • Virtual Conversations: Beautiful Fragility

    Our next presentation for Virtual Conversations premieres on YouTube at 8pm Central Time on Friday, April 17. “Beautiful Fragility: Railroad Cinematography in the Pacific Northwest,” is an interview with filmmaker Camron Settlemier of Marcam Productions about his quarter-century quest to record the dying branch lines and short line railroads of the Pacific Northwest. While still…