Author: Elrond Lawrence

  • 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?” The issue includes articles by Doug Riddell, “Jobs for Women ‘Come with a Price,’” and Linda Grant Niemann, “The Mean Old Nontraditional Blues.” If you’re…

  • 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 School of Engineering. The conference coincided with publication of Locomotive, a special edition from Trains magazine. The focus was similar to the first conference at the George…

  • 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 what does it have to do with railroads?” Author Jeff Brouws and photographer Joel Jensen take a look at the railroad town of Glendive, Montana.…

  • 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 in the project. Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum. The People of the Pennsy. Altoona, Pa., March 1993. Arnesen, Eric. Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for…

  • 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. News stories announce the fourth Conversations conference, with a new location at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and showcase winners of the Center’s third creative photography…

  • 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 Collection. Artist’s Magazine“The Year’s Best Art,” December 1997. Ted Rose receives first prize in landscape category Bramson, Seth“A Tale of Three Henrys,” Florida Theme Issue,Journal…

  • 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 black-and-white images from the presentations. If you’re not a member, join today and get four issues a year. 72 pages, color and b/w

  • 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 Foundation. John Gruber offers an overview, and several essays and image selections follow. Mark Hemphill served as guest editor of the issue and wrote brief…

  • 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 gallery of his Silver Legacy project, and Sayre Kos shares a little of the challenges and rewards of railroad work. The issue concludes with a…