Zoom member-exclusive program: Inside the Henry Posner III Collection

Ferrocarril Central Andino 609 pulls a charter train somewhere northeast of Matucana, Peru, on July 25, 2000. Photograph by Henry Posner III, Posner-18-23-11.
Ferrocarriles de Guatemala workers gather around a motorcart as they follow a work train led by U10B 803, repairing tracks somewhere in Guatemala in 1998. Photograph by Henry Posner III, Posner-11-03-11.

Join us for an evening of globe-trotting railroad photography and great stories in this member-exclusive Zoom program, “Photographer of Last Resort: Inside the Henry Posner III Collection.”

Gil Taylor, reference and processing archivist, presents images from Henry Posner III, whose collection Gil has been processing since 2022. Henry is chairman of RDC, a global railway investment and management company, which he founded in 1987 with his partner Bob Pietrandrea. He also serves as chairman of Iowa Interstate Railroad, RDC-Deutschland, EuroRail, and family investment firm The Hawthorne Group. His leadership roles have taken him across the world and he has photographed railroads in fifty-four countries.

Henry will join Gil for the program to share anecdotes, behind-the-scenes tidbits, and fascinating details about his rail photographs, which range from spectacular to gritty and frequently spotlight railroad people across geography and cultures. Highlights include:

  • The Iowa Interstate Railroad, including its Chinese QJ steam locomotives;
  • Henry’s involvement with and photography of Guatemala’s Ferrocarriles de Guatemala, plus Ferrovías Guatemala;
  • His photographs of Peru’s Ferrocarril Central Andino, with a strong focus on the Andes Mountains.
  • Henry’s digital images of railroads that RDC works with in France and Germany, as well as eye-catching safety signs around the world.

This program originally aired on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 7:00 PM U.S. Central Time (5 pm Pacific / 6 pm Mountain / 8 pm Eastern).

CRP&A members can request a link to the recording by emailing info@railphoto-art.org.

Henry also serves as president of the EBT Foundation — a nonprofit organization formed to restore and operate the East Broad Top Railroad. He is Iowa Interstate’s alternate director at the Association of American Railroads, and a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Agriculture and Food Transport Subcommittee. He teaches undergraduate courses on rail deregulation and privatization and he’s lectured and published extensively about railways.

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