Month: March 2022

  • Do you have orders for us?

    Adapting train orders forthe Center’s Legacy Society Soo Line relief operator Tony Kunst “hoops up” a train order to a freight train heading west at Mundelein, Illinois, on November 10, 1962. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, Abbey-05-079-11 The Center for Railroad Photography & Art is built upon the legacy of railroading. The year 2019 was…

  • The Center Honors John Gruber (founder, 1936-2018) with local exhibition Faces of Railroading at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin

    Faces of Railroading: The Making of Madison and Dane County is currently on display in the Art Court at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin from August 6, 2019 to January 26, 2020. The exhibition looks at the historic role railroaders played in the development of Dane County, Wisconsin, home of the Center for…

  • Fall 2019: Bennett’s art, Swiss narrow gauge, Zimmermann’s worldwide photography

    $7.95 The fall 2019 issue features a cover story spotlighting artist Gil Bennett, a presenter at Conversations 2019. Karl Zimmermann shares his worldwide photography, which is coming to the Center’s Railroad Heritage Visual Archive. Editor Scott Lothes presents some of his recent photography from Switzerland and his take on “The Art of Place,” a new…

  • The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb

    J. Parker Lamb broke new ground in railroad photography. His exceptional collection came to the Center for Railroad Photography & Art in 2015, and his work is now the subject of a book, published by the Center. The text comes from Kevin P. Keefe and Fred W. Frailey. Frailey wrote a foreword that presents Lamb’s…

  • Summer 2019: Award Winners, Bodine, Cunningham

    $7.95 Summer 2019 is the third consecutive issue to which we’ve added twelve pages to our usual forty-eight. They feature the winners of the 2019 John E. Gruber Creative Photographer Awards, which received the second-highest number of submissions in its history. Additional content spotlights a conference presenter–Jennifer Bodine writes about pictorialist photographer A. Aubrey Bodine;…

  • Spring 2019: After Promontory

    $7.95 The Spring 2019 Railroad Heritage is a special, 60-page issue about the Center’s After Promontory project on transcontinental railroads. Editor Scott Lothes provides a behind-the-scenes look at the project, which started in 2017 and launches this spring for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the nation’s first transcontinental line. Articles by Alexander Benjamin…

  • After Promontory: 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroading

    After Promontory: One Hundred Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading, edited by the Center and published by Indiana University Press in 2019, is part of a major project examining the histories and impacts of all of the nation’s transcontinental railroads. The 10×10-inch hardcover book features 19th-century photographs by some of the most ac­complished photographers in the…

  • Winter 2019: John Gruber, the First Transcon, Carlos Kirovsky

    $7.95 We mark the passing of CRPA founder and photographer John Gruber with a sampling of his rail images and tributes from friends and colleagues. John A. Kirchner showcases the rail paintings of Brazilian artist Carlos Kirovsky. Photographer Drake Hokanson discusses shooting the first transcontinental route between Omaha and Sacramento. David Lester reflects on the Young…

  • John E. Gruber, 1936-2018

    John Edward Gruber, founder of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, died on October 9, 2018, after struggling briefly with esophageal cancer. His influence on the field of railroad photography is impossible to overstate, from his own paradigm-shifting black-and-white work beginning in the 1960s to his 2018 book that reexamines the lives and photography…