Month: March 2022

  • 100 Years: The Diesel Locomotive

    The Center for Railroad Photography & Art, in cooperation with Kalmbach Publishing Co., presented “One Hundred Years: The Diesel Locomotive in American Railroading” on Saturday, September 30, at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The conference coincided with publication of Locomotive, a special edition from Trains magazine. The focus was similar to the first conference at the George…

  • Railroad work bibliography

    This bibliography about railroad work is a collaborative effort. Please feel free to suggest additional sources. We thank Jim Porterfield and John H. White Jr. for their knowledge and assistance in the project. Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum. The People of the Pennsy. Altoona, Pa., March 1993. Arnesen, Eric. Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for…

  • Resources about railroad photography

    Magazine Articles The Chicago electric interurban railroads produced an outstanding series of posters in the 1920s. Ervin Metzl’s “By the North Shore Line” (1923) is an example. J. J. Sedelmaier Collection. Artist’s Magazine“The Year’s Best Art,” December 1997. Ted Rose receives first prize in landscape category Bramson, Seth“A Tale of Three Henrys,” Florida Theme Issue,Journal…

  • Issue 14: Iron Icon – The Railroad in American Art

    Special issue in cooperation with the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis, featuring the papers given by the nine speakers, accompanied by many striking color and black-and-white images from the presentations. If you’re not a member, join today and get four issues a year. This issue is out of print, please email…

  • Memorable Photographers: Creative, Almost Forgotten

    For the 2003 Conversations about Photography conference, John Gruber and David Plowden are planning a presentation to recognize some of the creative, almost forgotten photographers from the 1940s and 1950s who are no longer living—those who brought so much life to the end of the steam era. The list here is a beginning. Suggestions are…

  • 20 Memorable Railroad Photographs of the 20th Century

    The selection comes from photographers with a distinctive style and a body of work in railroading. We did not include well-known photographs such as Alfred Stieglitz’s “In the New York Central Yards” in 1903 or Lewis Hine’s work portraits of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1921, since these photographers only occasionally made views of railroading. *…