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Digital resources at the University of Connecticut
Issue 2020:4 of Railroad Heritage includes an article by Laura Smith, archivist at the University of Connecticut, about the New Haven Railroad’s Rider’s Digest during World War II. You can…
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Issue No. 23: Ted Benson and Tom Taylor, Conversations, Otto Kuhler, David Plowden
$7.95 Profile of Ted Benson and Tom Tayor, California photographers and presenters at the 2010 “Conversations” conference. Industrial designer Otto Kuhler; rescued mural at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and…
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Issue No. 22: Jack Delano and Chicago Union Station
$7.95 Photographer Jack Delano and his portraits of railroad workers at Chicago Union Station, which he photographed primarily in 1943. Other highlights include the 2009 awards program, the Center’s 2009…
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Issue No. 21: Railroad History in a Nutshell
$19.95 Quick-and-easy illustrated guide to the history of railroading in North America. Abundant examples of the railroads’ role in the growth and economic life of the nation, plus how railroads…
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Issue No. 20: Walker Evans, American Communities, and the Railroad
$7.95 Author Tony Reevy writes that “Evans (1903-75) was one of the most noted and original American photographers of the twentieth century, but has not yet received sufficient recognition for…
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Issue No. 19: Ted Rose – The Artist’s Early Photography
$14.95 Photographic accomplishments of Rose (1940-2002), known mostly for his stunning watercolors but also an excellent photographer as a youth and young man. Essays by Robert Ewing, director emeritus of…
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In memoriam
Chard Walker, 1922-2007 Chard L. Walker, 85, who worked for 16 years at the Santa Fe train order station at Summit, California, in Cajon Pass, died September 28, 2007, at…
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Issue No. 18: Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg – Railroading Journeys
$14.95 Special retrospective issue devoted to the life and times of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, whose books changed the way Americans think about—and look at—railroads and railroading. 59 photographs,…
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Issue No. 17: Women in Railroading
$7.95 To uncover the story of women in railroading was a methodical and slow undertaking spanning more than 20 years, guest editor Shirley Burman writes in “Where Were the Women?”…
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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…
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Issue No. 16: Jeff Brouws and Joel Jensen – Ruminations on a Railroad Town
$9.75 The cover story showcases winners of the Center’s fourth creative photography awards program. George A. Talbot III and John O. Holzhueter consider the question “what is ‘visual culture’ and…
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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…
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Issue No. 15: Ted Rose, Lucius Beebe, and Draft Gear Designs
$9.75 The cover story introduces a new exhibition, publication, and archival partnership between the Center and the Ted Rose Studio to showcase Ted’s watercolors as well as his early photography.…
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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…
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Issue No. 14: Iron Icon – The Railroad in American Art
$14.95 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…
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Issue No. 13: Representations of Railroad Work
$9.75 Most of this issue is a midpoint report on the Center’s “Representations of Railroad Work, Past and Present,” an exhibition and publication project funded by the North American Railway…
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Issue No. 12: Amtrak Travel Posters, Breck’s Calendars, and Silver Legacy
$9.75 The cover story announces the Center’s third Conversations conference. Inside, there are articles about Amtrak’s travel posters and the railroad photography calendars of Sam Breck. Mel Patrick provides a…
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Issue No 11: Conversations 2004, Award Winners, Schnitzmeyer and Montana, and Chicago Posters
$9.75 The cover story presents the winners of the Center’s second creative photography awards. There’s a gallery of images from the Conversations 2004 conference, an announcement of the Center’s updated…
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Issue No. 10: Creative, Almost Forgotten Steam-Era Photographers
$9.75 The cover story recaps a conference presentation by John Gruber and David Plowden about “creative, almost forgotten photographers.” Gruber also presents a gallery of Leo King’s photographs of railroad…
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Issue No. 9: Jackson’s Camera Turns East and Interurban Travel Posters
$9.75 The cover story by Ted Benson showcases the remarkable photography, impact, and inspiration of Richard Steinheimer. John Gruber continues his coverage of William Henry Jackson’s photography with an article…
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Issue No. 8: Jackson Heads West and KCS Pride
$9.75 The cover story announces a new photography exhibition project about railroad workers, with significant funding from the North American Railway Foundation. Editor John Gruber examines William Henry Jackson’s photography…
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Issue No. 7: The Pullman Photographers and the Man on the Trestle
$9.75 The cover story showcases winners of the Center’s first-ever photography awards program, while John Gruber recaps the success of the first Conversations about Photography conference and announces the second…
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Issue No. 6: The Railroads and Digital Photography
$9.75 The cover story by Greg Palumbo looks at the railroad poster art of Bern Hill. News stories announce the Center’s first photography awards program and inaugural “Conversations about Photography”…
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Issue No. 5: John R. Stilgoe and the American Railroad Corridor
$9.75 The cover story features Chicago Union Station photography. Erik Ledbetter explores the research of John R. Stilgoe and his focus on the “metropolitan corridor.” John H. White Jr., a…
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Issue No. 4: Lewis Hine Views Pennsylvania Railroaders of the 1920s
$9.75 The cover feature presents the watercolors of Ted Rose. Lee Buchsbaum looks at the 1920s railroad worker photography of Lewis Hine. Additional articles consider O. Winston Link’s photography for…
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Issue No. 3: Industrial Design and the Alco-GE Locomotives
$9.75 A painting by Herbert D. Stitt and an overview of his work for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad leadoff this issue. John Gruber then presents the award-winning photograph “Spirit…
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Issue No. 2: Roy Stryker and the Steam/Diesel Transition
$9.75 After addressing the question of “why an archive,” editor John Gruber examines the unique railroad photography of John Walker Barriger III. He also recognizes James P. Gallagher’s photography and…
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Issue No. 1: Memorable Rail Photography and Artist Gil Reid
$9.75 The first issue of Railroad Heritage introduces the Center for Railroad Photography & Art and the long relationship between railroads and the visual arts in an editorial by John…
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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…
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Collection Tracking: Montana’s Two Medicine Bridge with Ron Hill
Every piece of railroad has a “signature shot,” that must-have photo location that stands above all others. The one image every visiting photographer has to come home with.

























