Month: March 2022

  • Zoom program: Inside the Ronald C. Hill Collection

    After spending nearly 15 months processing the Ronald C. Hill Collection of approximately 27,000 items including color transparencies, negatives, and prints, Heather Sonntag sees Ron Hill as “the whole rail-fan package.” Join us to hear how Heather first learned about railroad photography through Ron’s impeccable camera work that spans 60 years from 1957 to 2018.…

  • Zoom program: A Passion for Color – The Railroad Paintings of John R. Signor

    In our next free online program, John Signor will showcase his spectacular paintings of the American rail industry, with a focus on western lines. Best known for his books and bird’s-eye view maps; John will relate his journey from a high school student through various attempts to depict his passion for trains. He started by…

  • History of the Beer Line, in-person lecture by John Kelly at Pilot Project MKE

    Wednesday, February 8, 20237:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), in-person lectureEvent runs from 6:00 – 9:00 pm Pilot Project MKE is the latest stop for the traveling photography exhibition Milwaukee’s Beer Line. The exhibition will be on view in the taproom from January 23 to February 15. On Wednesday, February 8, local historian John Kelly will…

  • Rio Grande Steam Finale: Narrow gauge railroad photography in Colorado and New Mexico

    In the 1950s and 1960s, many of the nation’s greatest railroad photographers journeyed to southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico to document the final years of the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s spectacular narrow-gauge railway. They were driven by a fever for which there was no cure: the chance to photograph half-century-old trains operating on…

  • Winter 2023: Film’s return, Bachman, Gruber, Watts, and more

    $7.95 Film is making a comeback and the Winter 2023 issue of Railroad Heritage is your guide to this developing trend! Highlights include: If you don’t receive it already, join the Center and have four issues delivered to your mailbox each year.

  • Zoom program: The Lady Engineer and the Train – Remembering Olive W. Dennis and The Cincinnatian

    Join Sharon Harwood in an immersive experience aboard the first run of the B&O’s Cincinnatian passenger train in January 1947. City officials, press, and railroad executives gathered for ribbon-cutting ceremonies in Cincinnati’s Union Terminal and the Washington, D.C., Union Station as the B&O Railroad presented its new daylight luxury streamliner. The Cincinnatian would become one of the most admired trains of…

  • The Role of Technology: 2023 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program

    The 2023 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program theme is The Role of Technology. This year’s theme will explore how technology has shaped—and continues to inform— how railroads operate, look and perform across time, place and season. Photographers are encouraged to visually interpret the theme expressing how technology impacts the evolving nature of railroads.   Participants are welcome…

  • Zoom program: Shooting the Diesel That Did it, presented by Kevin Keefe

    The debut of Electro-Motive Division’s FT freight locomotive in 1939 and 1940 was a watershed for the railroad industry – the steam locomotive was on its way out. The FT’s first public appearances gave both EMD and the Santa Fe Railway a chance to show off their promotional muscle, and photographs would tell the tale. In…

  • Fall 2022: Steinheimer, Awards, and more

    $7.95 The newly arrived Richard Steinheimer Collection headlines the Fall 2022 issue of Railroad Heritage…with plenty more great photography and stories, plus news, updates, and no ads! Highlights include: There’s also an in-depth report about “Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography” at the Historic Pullman Foundation plus more on all of the Center’s traveling exhibitions and…