Robert Hadley’s Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Another album from our Robert A. Hadley Collection of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is available online including westbound B&O engine no. 6179 at crossing near Fostoria, Ohio. Visit our website for the entire album: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/hadley/baltimore-and-ohio-railroad

The Center needs your help identifying the missing pieces in several of our Hadley images. If there are specific locations, dates, or details that you know please email info@railphoto-art.org or comment on our Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/railphotoart/albums

Hadley Collection Overview

Gift of Apex Foundation
6,618 black and white negatives
1930s to 2000s
Coverage includes the United States, England, and Canada with particular emphasis on Michigan and the Upper-Midwest, as well as Colorado and Wyoming

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Robert Hadley’s Burlington Northern

The next batch of selections from our Robert A. Hadley Collection are available online featuring this Burlington Northern Railroad freight train at Omaha, Nebraska, in May 1990. Visit our website for the entire album: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/hadley/burlington-northern-railroad

Hadley Collection Overview

Gift of Apex Foundation
6,618 black and white negatives
1930s to 2000s
Coverage includes the United States, England, and Canada with particular emphasis on Michigan and the Upper-Midwest, as well as Colorado and Wyoming

New Center Book Features Outstanding Beebe/Clegg Photography

Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy, a new book from the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, tells about how partners Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg introduced railroad photography and the world of railroading to wide popular audiences. The authors, John Gruber and John Ryan assisted by Mel Patrick, bring the best of their photographic work together in one book for the first time, using high quality duotone printing.

The 224-page book goes on sale for $59.95 at the Center’s Conversations conference April 13–15 at Lake Forest (Illinois) College. Copies may be ordered on the Center’s website and will be shipped immediately after the conference. A traveling exhibit is in the works.

Beebe (1902–1966) was known for the three-quarters or wedge of pie perspective in his photography. Clegg (1916–1979) introduced a more innovative outlook, boosting creativity for both of them. Their photographs shine in this new book, produced with the best of modern digitization, design, and printing techniques.

Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy

Beebe and Clegg: Their Enduring Photographic Legacy, a new book from the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, tells about how partners Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg introduced railroad photography and the world of railroading to wide popular audiences. Beebe (1902-1966) initially championed the three-quarters or “wedge-of-pie” perspective in his photography. Clegg (1916-1979) introduced a more innovative outlook, boosting creativity for both of them. Their photographs shine in this new book, produced with the best of modern digitization, design, and printing techniques.

Over the course of eight chapters, the book traces Beebe and Clegg’s life and times together, their visual influences, short lines, narrow gauge lines, Nevada and the Virginia & Truckee, and their photography. The book includes 222 images from the California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives, all scanned from negatives and carefully cleaned and checked, revealing surprises. Many are previously unpublished. Thirty-six additional images come from other sources. “Their legacy is larger than the publications they produced, for they demonstrated that railroads serve America as an icon of its experience,” authors John Gruber and John Ryan conclude.

$65, plus $5 for domestic shipping, hardcover, 8.5×11 inches, 224 pages, duotone

International shipping is available; please inquire by email at info [at] railphoto-art.org

Robert Hadley’s Ann Arbor Railroad

The first album of Robert A. Hadley selections is available online featuring the Ann Arbor Railroad. Here is a southbound Ann Arbor Railroad train no. 52 with engine no. 1612 (4-4-2) at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1941. View more at the Hadley webpage: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/hadley/ann-arbor-railroad

Hadley Collection Overview

Gift of Apex Foundation
6,618 black and white negatives
1930s to 2000s
Coverage includes the United States, England, and Canada with particular emphasis on Michigan and the Upper-Midwest, as well as Colorado and Wyoming