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The Art of Railroading from the Grohmann Museum Collection
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, February 28 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Now Available on YouTube James Kieselburg, director of the Grohmann Museum…
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Postcards from my Seventy-Two Year Vacation – A Conversation with Mitch Markovitz
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, February 7 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube Painter Mitch Markovitz will discuss his lifelong…
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Winter 2022: Stockholm Metro, Horseshoe Curve, Old Paper Art
$7.95 Go underground with Emily Moser to explore the colorful world of Sweden’s cave stations in the cover story of our Winter 2022 issue. The public art installations of the…
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David P. Morgan’s Milwaukee, presented by Kevin P. Keefe
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, December 6 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube In a program centered around the late…
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Above, Aboard & Beyond: Unique Perspectives by Rail
Saturday, November 13, 2021, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm (U.S. Central Time) Join the CRP&A for an upcoming weekend event on Zoom featuring three fantastic photographers exploring unique perspectives by…
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Weather Effects: 2022 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program
[tabby title=”Theme”]Theme: Weather Effects Predawn Pikes Peak State Park, Iowa 2017. Photograph by Todd Halamka. The 2022 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program theme is Weather Effects. When…
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Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography, presented by Bon French
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, October 4 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography, demonstrates that…
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Railroads and the Moving Image
For as long as people have been making motion pictures, they’ve been recording railroads. Just a few years after the invention of the first motion picture camera, French brothers Auguste…
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Fall 2021: Awards, Videography, Harwood, Chicago
$7.95 Our Fall 2021 issue brings you an autumn-themed gallery of recent highlights from our collections processing efforts, including Jim McClellan’s cover photograph from the Denver & Rio Grande Western.…
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The Railroad and the Art of Place: An Anthology, panel discussion
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Tuesday, September 14 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube The Center for Railroad Photography and…
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The Railroad and the Art of Place: Photographs by David Kahler, exhibition opening event
Friday, September 10, 2021 / 6-8:30 pm (CDT)Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee School of Engineering1000 North Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53202 The Center for Railroad Photography and Art, in collaboration with the Grohmann…
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Amtrak’s Evolving Image
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Tuesday, August 24 at 4:30 p.m. (CT) Now Available on YouTube Amtrak Brand Communications…
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Summer 2021: Los Angeles River, Pentrex, Malo
$7.95 Three fabulous feature articles form the backbone of our Summer 2021 issue. Take a deep look at railroading along the Los Angeles River with Elrond Lawrence in the cover…
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The Sun Always Sets in the East and West, Yoichi Uzeki
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 PM (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, July 12 at 4:30 PM (CT) Now Available on YouTube Yoichi Uzeki returns…
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Hoosier Lifelines: Social and Environmental Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 PM (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, June 7 at 4:30 PM (CT) Now Available on YouTube The curators, historians,…
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Of Light, Landscape and the Echo of Trains, presented by Todd Halamka
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 PM (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, May 24 at 4:30 PM (CT) Now Available on YouTube A selection of…
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Fifty years of Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, turned fifty years old on May 1, 2021. To celebrate, we prepared a “50 Years of Amtrak” photography gallery, drawing from…
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R&LHS Centennial
North America’s oldest railroad history organization—the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. (R&LHS)—marks its 100th anniversary this year. Founded in Boston in 1921, the nonprofit R&LHS is among the oldest…
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Celestials, film premiere and discussion, hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of America
Saturday, May 8, 20213:00 – 6:00 PM US Central Time [1:00 – 4:00 PM Pacific] The Center for Railroad Photography & Art invites our members to participate in a special premiere…
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The Railroad and the Art of Place: An Anthology
The imprint of the railroad on the North American landscape remains indelible across space and time. A handsome hardcover book from the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, The Railroad and…
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Spring 2021: Masters, Sullivan, Jordan
$7.95 Savor of the work of two supremely talented graphite artists whose work falls a century apart. Frank Bird Masters illustrated railroad fiction stories in the early twentieth century with…
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Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy, with Mel Patrick and John Ryan
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Mel Patrick and John Ryan, authors of Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy, have…
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Call for Submissions: Continuity & Change – Photographs of Railroads in the 21st Century
We’re looking for images that capture the essence of rail transportation in the 21st century. What does contemporary railroading look like? What aspects of rail transportation remain evergreen, recognizably connecting…
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The Art of Dining on Rails: Presented by Jay W. Christopher & Anne Lapinski
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube The Christopher Transportation Museum is home to Jay Christopher’s personal collection of airline, shipline, railroad,…
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Winter 2021: Postcards, Hallock, Stanley
$7.95 Steam into a new year with the spectacular winter photography of Ralph Hallock, featuring the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s Tennessee Pass with commentary by Mark W. Hemphill, in…
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The Iron Road to the Deep North: Japanese Railways of Hokkaido, Then and Now
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Victor Hand traveled to Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, in 1966 and 1971 in search of steam…
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Keep in touch with CRP&A postcards
In conjunction with an article in Railroad Heritage 2021:1 by Den Adler, “The Rise and Fall of the Railroad Postcard,” the Center has published a set of six postcards with…
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Wallace W. Abbey: A Life in Railroad Photography, presented by Kevin Keefe and Scott Lothes
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Kevin Keefe and Scott Lothes, co-writers and editors of the publication Wallace W. Abbey: A…
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The Railroad and the Art of Place, David Kahler
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube In the late 1980s, David Kahler was deeply inspired by seeing an exhibition of O.…
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Conversations about Ted Rose, October 29
[two_third] Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:30-8:30 P.M. (U.S. Central) on Cisco Webex Events Now Available on YouTube Join the Center for Railroad Photography & Art and the Colorado Railroad Museum…