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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 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 look at the new book about Richard Steinheimer’s photography, A Passion of Trains, by Jeff Brouws.

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←Issue No 11: Conversations 2004, Award Winners, Schnitzmeyer and Montana, and Chicago Posters
Issue No. 13: Representations of Railroad Work→

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