Month: March 2022

  • Digital resources at the University of Connecticut

    Issue 2020:4 of Railroad Heritage includes an article by Laura Smith, archivist at the University of Connecticut, about the New Haven Railroad’s Rider’s Digest during World War II. You can find out more about the railroad collections in the UConn Archives at:https://lib.uconn.edu/location/asc/ Issues of The Rider’s Digest can be found in the UConn Library’s digital…

  • Issue 23: Ted Benson and Tom Taylor, Conversations, Otto Kuhler, David Plowden

    Profile of Ted Benson and Tom Tayor, California photographers and presenters at the 2010 “Conversations” conference. Industrial designer Otto Kuhler; rescued mural at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen headquarters in Cleveland; David Plowden’s new book and exhibition; honor rool of 2009 donors. If you’re not a member, join today and get four issues…

  • Issue 22: Jack Delano and Chicago Union Station

    Photographer Jack Delano and his portraits of railroad workers at Chicago Union Station, which he photographed primarily in 1943. Other highlights include the 2009 awards program, the Center’s 2009 activities, and profiles of photographer Frank Barry and the designer of the Southern Pacific’s 1937 Daylight passenger train. If you’re not a member, join today and…

  • Issue 21: Railroad History in a Nutshell

    Quick-and-easy illustrated guide to the history of railroading in North America. Abundant examples of the railroads’ role in the growth and economic life of the nation, plus how railroads have influenced fine art, photography, travel, and popular culture. If you’re not a member, join today and get four issues a year. $19.95, 48 pages, color…

  • Issue 20: Walker Evans, American Communities, and the Railroad

    Author Tony Reevy writes that “Evans (1903-75) was one of the most noted and original American photographers of the twentieth century, but has not yet received sufficient recognition for his works that focus on the American railroad.” Also 2008 photo award winners and William Henry Jackson’s work for the Baltimore & Ohio. If you’re not…

  • Issue 19: Ted Rose’s photography

    Photographic accomplishments of Rose (1940-2002), known mostly for his stunning watercolors but also an excellent photographer as a youth and young man. Essays by Robert Ewing, director emeritus of the Fine Arts Museum of the Museum of New Mexico; Robert Ludwig, who often traveled with Rose to photograph the trains; and John Gruber. If you’re…

  • In memoriam

    Chard Walker, 1922-2007 Chard L. Walker, 85, who worked for 16 years at the Santa Fe train order station at Summit, California, in Cajon Pass, died September 28, 2007, at his home in Hesperia, California. After retiring in 1983, he wrote two books about Cajon Pass. His photographs often appeared in Trains, which featured him in his…

  • Issue 18: Beebe & Clegg’s railroading journeys

    Special retrospective issue devoted to the life and times of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, whose books changed the way Americans think about—and look at—railroads and railroading. If you’re not a member, join today and get four issues a year. $14.95, 32 pages, b/w

  • Issue 17: Women in Railroading

    To uncover the story of women in railroading was a methodical and slow undertaking spanning more than 20 years, guest editor Shirley Burman writes in “Where Were the Women?” The issue includes articles by Doug Riddell, “Jobs for Women ‘Come with a Price,’” and Linda Grant Niemann, “The Mean Old Nontraditional Blues.” If you’re not…