Center for Railroad Photography & Art
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Threads
  • YouTube
  • About Us
  • Archival Collections
    • About the Archive
    • Browse Collections
    • Donate Materials
    • Image Use & Research
    • Out of the Archives Column
  • Events & Programs
    • Conferences
    • Awards
    • Webinars
  • Exhibitions
  • Publications
    • Books
    • Railroad Heritage
  • Join & Support
    • Membership
    • Ways of Giving
    • Legacy Society
    • Newsletter
View Cart
  • About Us
  • Archival Collections
    • About the Archive
    • Browse Collections
    • Donate Materials
    • Image Use & Research
    • Out of the Archives Column
  • Events & Programs
    • Conferences
    • Creative Photography Awards
    • Webinars
  • Exhibitions
  • Publications
    • Books
    • Railroad Heritage
  • Join & Support
    • Membership
    • Ways of Giving
    • Legacy Society
    • Newsletter
View Cart
    • Facebook
    • Flickr
    • Instagram
    • Threads
    • YouTube

Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography

200-page, hardbound, 11- by 11.5-inch book published by the Center in 2015. Printed in the United States, it features 108 photographs, including seventy-three of Jack Delano’s 1942–1943 views of Chicagoland railroads and their workers, reproduced in full color with rich quadtones for the black-and-whites. Contempoary photographs by Jack’s son, Pablo Delano, and the Center’s John Gruber and Scott Lothes complement the catalog. There are essays by Pablo Delano, Gruber, and University of Texas professor Jeremi Suri, a leading public historian. Biographical essays prepared by Center editorial consultant Jack Holzhueter as well as Gruber and Lothes tell the life stories of the forty-nine railroaders.

Winner of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society’s George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award.

$60, $50 for members of the Center, $5 domestic shipping, 200 pages, hardbound, color and b/w

International shipping is available; please inquire by email at info [at] railphoto-art.org

←Summer 2015: Kahler’s Norfolk Southern in Appalachia, Barry’s Mexico, Mailly’s art
Significant Images of Railroading→

RECENT posts

  • Introducing our new site

    Introducing our new site

  • PBS Wisconsin program: Railroads of Madison and South Central Wisconsin

    PBS Wisconsin program: Railroads of Madison and South Central Wisconsin

  • Spring 2026: Freedom Train, Hudson Highlands, Travels with Don, and more

    Spring 2026: Freedom Train, Hudson Highlands, Travels with Don, and more

Center for Railroad Photography & Art

Our mission: to preserve and present significant images of railroading.

(608) 251-5785
info [at] railphoto-art.org
1930 Monroe Street, Suite 301
Madison, WI 53711-2059

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Threads
  • YouTube

Become a member

Browse collections

Make a gift

shop books

Subscribe to newsletter

Railfans ride a Mid-Continent Railway Museum caboose in North Freedom, Wisconsin, in May 1963. Photograph by John Gruber, Gruber-05-021-0003

©2026, Center for Railroad Photography & Art