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Virtual Oktoberfest: Milwaukee’s Beer Line, October 6
[two_third] Now Available on YouTube Join author John Kelly on Tuesday, October 6 for a virtual Oktoberfest! Crack open your favorite seasonal Octoberfest and join us for a lecture on…
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Fall 2020: Awards, Cartoons, Creativity & Covid
$7.95 While 2020 has brought unimaginable challenges, our members have remained deeply engaged in railroad photography and art. They share samples of their recent work in this issue’s cover story,…
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Creativity & Covid
Toward the end of Spring 2020, we at the Center wondered how our members were faring during the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stay-at-home orders, remote work, and limited travel…
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Virtual Conversations: Fall Edition
As the global health situation continues, we were sadly forced to make the necessary decision to reschedule Conversations Northeast at the University of Connecticut from September 19, 2020 to Fall…
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The Railroad Photography of Donald W. Furler
Donald W. Furler helped write the rules of railroad action photography. From taking engine pictures as a teenager in the early 1930s, he joined an elite group of railroad photographers…
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Virtual Launch Party For Our New Book: The Railroad Photography of Donald W. Furler
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Join author Scott Lothes for a virtual launch of the Center’s newest publication, The Railroad…
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Following the Golden Spike: Time, Place, and Change Along the First Transcontinental Railroad
Drake Hokanson Tuesday, August 18, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Now Available on YouTube Terrace, Utah, showing ties left in place on the original Promontory transcontinental route.…
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An Evening With The Winners of the 2020 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program: John Troxler & Steven Chen
John E. Troxler and Steven Chen won first prizes in the 2020 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards Program in the black-and-white and color categories, respectively. Join us in…
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In The Studio With Adam Normandin: Living With Trains And Life With Art
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central), on Cisco Webex Available now on Youtube Join artist Adam Normandin in an exploration of his work, influences, and studio. Normandin is…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Fall conference
Due to the ongoing concerns and challenges surrounding the global health situation, we are rescheduling Conversations Northeast at the University of Connecticut from September 19, 2020, to a Saturday to…
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Summer 2020: Maps, Utah, Alban’s paintings, BNSF in Texas
$7.95 Explore the art of railway and transit maps in the Summer 2020 issue’s cover story by Justin Franz in Railroad Heritage. Three additional feature articles await you. Mark W.…
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Spring 2020: Botkin’s worldwide steam, British art, advertising and photography
$7.95 Travel around the world with photographer William E. Botkin in his quest for evocative black-and-white photographs of steam locomotives with the cover story of the Spring 2020 issue of…
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Archives and Preservation resources
We hosted an archives and preservation Q&A with Adrienne Evans, our archivist, on Tuesday evening, May 19. Adrienne fielded dozens of questions about our collections and best practices for the…
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CRP&A Archives and Preservation Q&A
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:00-8:00 P.M. (U.S. Central) Hosted by Adrienne Evans, CRP&A Archivist on Cisco Webex Registration is closed. CRP&A Archivist Adrienne Evans will answer your questions! Curious about…
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Virtual Conversations: Beautiful Fragility
Our next presentation for Virtual Conversations premieres on YouTube at 8pm Central Time on Friday, April 17. “Beautiful Fragility: Railroad Cinematography in the Pacific Northwest,” is an interview with filmmaker…
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Virtual Conversations: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to CRPA
If you’re missing a good railfan road trip right now, you will not want to miss our next presentation for Virtual Conversations, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to…
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Virtual Conversations: Mikado’s Farewell
Our next presentation for Virtual Conversations is “Mikado’s Farewell – China’s Last Steam Railroad,” by Travis Dewitz and Todd Halamka. View it now on YouTube. Dewitz and Halamka made a…
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Virtual Conversations: Return to Copper Country
Our first presentation for Virtual Conversations is “Return to Copper Country: Rediscovering the railroads of Clifton and Morenci, Arizona,” by Scott Lothes. View it now on YouTube. The copper mining…
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Virtual Conversations
Railroads connect us across time and space. And in these unprecedented times, we could all use a few more (socially-distanced) connections. We hope you will connect with us on Saturday,…
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Conversations 2020: cancelled
With the rapidly evolving situation of the coronavirus/COVID-19 and the CDC’s recommendation not to hold gatherings of 50 or more people for the next eight weeks, the Center for Railroad…
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We’re moving!
We are enjoying a time of expansive growth at the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, and we head into the new year heading for new and much larger offices…
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2020 Conferences
The Center for Railroad Photography & Art will host two conferences in 2020: Conversations 2020 Conversations Northeast We hope to see you at one or both of them!
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Archival Resources
Preservation — General Preservation — Film Base Identification Preservation — Cold Storage Digital Preservation/Personal Archiving Archival Vendors (American) Archival Vendors (Canadian)
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Winter 2020: British Columbia, railroad art, and the Harlowton depot
$7.95 The Winter 2020 issue of Railroad Heritage is an expanded, 72-page issue that focuses on the West. The cover story by Todd Halamka is the latest in our “Railroads…
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Do you have orders for us?
Adapting train orders forthe Center’s Legacy Society Soo Line relief operator Tony Kunst “hoops up” a train order to a freight train heading west at Mundelein, Illinois, on November 10,…
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The Center Honors John Gruber (founder, 1936-2018) with local exhibition Faces of Railroading at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin
Faces of Railroading: The Making of Madison and Dane County is currently on display in the Art Court at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin from August 6, 2019…
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Fall 2019: Bennett’s art, Swiss narrow gauge, Zimmermann’s worldwide photography
$7.95 The fall 2019 issue features a cover story spotlighting artist Gil Bennett, a presenter at Conversations 2019. Karl Zimmermann shares his worldwide photography, which is coming to the Center’s…
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The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb
J. Parker Lamb broke new ground in railroad photography. His exceptional collection came to the Center for Railroad Photography & Art in 2015, and his work is now the subject…
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Summer 2019: Award Winners, Bodine, Cunningham
$7.95 Summer 2019 is the third consecutive issue to which we’ve added twelve pages to our usual forty-eight. They feature the winners of the 2019 John E. Gruber Creative Photographer…
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Spring 2019: After Promontory
$7.95 The Spring 2019 Railroad Heritage is a special, 60-page issue about the Center’s After Promontory project on transcontinental railroads. Editor Scott Lothes provides a behind-the-scenes look at the project,…