Fred Springer’s Scandinavian Railways

Another album with selections of Scandinavian railways from the Center’s Fred M. Springer Collection has been uploaded. Covering Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Fred captured them all including this Danish State Railways electric locomotive no. 467 in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 2, 1989.

View more from the album at: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/springer/scandinavian-railways

Springer Collection Overview

Gift of Fred and Dale Springer
8,000 B&W negatives
50,000 color slides
1940s to 2000s
Coverage includes six inhabited continents, and especially the southwestern United States, Mexico, and South America

John Bjorklund’s Western Pacific Railroad

Another album from our John F. Bjorklund Collection with images of the Western Pacific Railroad has been uploaded. Here is a westbound Western Pacific Railroad freight train at Williams Loop in Spring Garden, California, on July 22, 1982.

View all the selections, which also include McCloud River Railroad and Camas Prairie Railroad at our website: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/bjorklund/western-pacific

Bjorklund Collection Overview

Gift of Rose Bjorklund
55,000 color slides
1960s to 2000s
Coverage spans the United States and Canada

Fred Springer’s Middle Eastern Railways

The Center has just uploaded selections from our Fred M. Springer Collection featuring the railways of the Middle East. Included is this view of the Hedjaz Jordan Railway 2-8-2 steam locomotive no. 71 rounding a curve as observers standby in Amman, Jordan, on July 15, 1991.

View the entire album at our website: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/springer/middle-eastern-railways

Springer Collection Overview

Gift of Fred and Dale Springer
8,000 B&W negatives
50,000 color slides
1940s to 2000s
Coverage includes six inhabited continents, and especially the southwestern United States, Mexico, and South America

John Bjorklund’s Milwaukee Road (West)

The Center is proud to feature the second round of Milwaukee Road selections, focusing on the west, from our John F. Bjorklund Collection. They include this unique view of a Milwaukee Road coal train in Gascoyne, North Dakota, on July 10, 1980.

View the entire album and more from the collection at our website: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/bjorklund/milwaukee-road-west

Bjorklund Collection Overview

Gift of Rose Bjorklund
55,000 color slides
1960s to 2000s
Coverage spans the United States and Canada

J. Parker Lamb’s Group Eight

The latest and last batch of J. Parker Lamb black-and-white photographs have been uploaded to our website, including this view of an eastbound Chesapeake and Ohio Railway freight train crossing a bridge in downtown Richmond, Virginia, in October 1961.

Check out the full album at: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/lamb/group-eight

Lamb Collection Overview

Gift of J. Parker Lamb
2,700 B&W negatives in six groups (as of March 2017, with more on the way)
1940s to 1980s (as of March 2017)
Group eight is the last batch of black-and-white photographs