Author: Elrond Lawrence

  • 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 his award from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, the success of the Starlight on the Rails exhibition, and the 19th-century railroad photography of Henry…

  • 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 Gruber, the Center’s principal founder. He also spotlights selections from the Center’s first traveling photography exhibition and profiles artist Gil Reid. Art Miller, archivist at…

  • 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 who are no longer living—those who brought so much life to the end of the steam era. The list here is a beginning. Suggestions are…

  • 20 Memorable Railroad Photographs of the 20th Century

    The selection comes from photographers with a distinctive style and a body of work in railroading. We did not include well-known photographs such as Alfred Stieglitz’s “In the New York Central Yards” in 1903 or Lewis Hine’s work portraits of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1921, since these photographers only occasionally made views of railroading. *…