Webinars

Our monthly online webinars showcase a range of voices from across our community, featuring engaging presentations by artists, photographers, archivists, and historians. Each event offers a unique opportunity to explore creative practices, uncover historical insights, and gain new perspectives on railroad imagery and archival practice.

Zoom program: The Lady Engineer and the Train – Remembering Olive W. Dennis and The Cincinnatian

Join Sharon Harwood in an immersive experience aboard the first run of the B&O’s Cincinnatian passenger train in January 1947. City officials, press, and railroad executives gathered for ribbon-cutting ceremonies in Cincinnati’s Union Terminal and the Washington, D.C., Union Station as the B&O Railroad presented its new daylight luxury streamliner. The Cincinnatian would become one of the most admired trains of…
Zoom program: Shooting the Diesel That Did it, presented by Kevin Keefe

The debut of Electro-Motive Division’s FT freight locomotive in 1939 and 1940 was a watershed for the railroad industry – the steam locomotive was on its way out. The FT’s first public appearances gave both EMD and the Santa Fe Railway a chance to show off their promotional muscle, and photographs would tell the tale. In…
An Evening with the Winners of the 2022 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards

The 2022 John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards was one of the most competitive contests we’ve had to date. With over 540 submissions for this year’s theme of Weather Effects, our panel of judges had a difficult job ahead of them to narrow down the entries to six placed photographs. In “An Evening with the…
Virtual Launch Party: Preview Continuity & Change, our newest book

Tuesday, August 16, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, August 15 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Now Available on YouTube Join editors Alexander Craghead and Scott Lothes for a virtual launch of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art’s new publication, Continuity & Change: The Lure of North American Railroads.…
Member Exclusive: Behind-the-Scenes with the Steinheimer Collection

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, August 1 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Registration Closed CRP&A members can request the recording link at info@railphoto-art.org Member Exclusive: In appreciation for the generous support of our members, join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the Richard Steinheimer Collection and…
Behind the Photographs of O. Winston Link – Thomas Garver

Monday, July 18, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Sunday, July 17 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Now Available on YouTube Thomas Garver, the former assistant/agent of Link and the founding curator of the O. Winston Link Museum, will present Behind the Photographs of O. Winston Link. Garver will discuss the…
Railroad Landscapes – John Sanderson

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, June 27 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Now Available on YouTube John Sanderson will discuss the origins and progress of his on-going photographic series titled Railroad Landscapes. This project explores the territory adjacent to America’s railways using large format film cameras. An ongoing project since…
The Art of Railroading from the Grohmann Museum Collection

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, February 28 at 4:30 p.m. (CST) Now Available on YouTube James Kieselburg, director of the Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) will share a survey of railroad images, including prints, photographs, paintings, and sculpture, from the museum’s collection. …
Postcards from my Seventy-Two Year Vacation – A Conversation with Mitch Markovitz

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, February 7 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube Painter Mitch Markovitz will discuss his lifelong love of railroad art from his earliest memories of visiting the Illinois Central’s Grand Crossing station with his mother to running trains by the same…
David P. Morgan’s Milwaukee, presented by Kevin P. Keefe

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Central Time), on Zoom Registration closes on Monday, December 6 at 4:30 p.m. (CDT) Now Available on YouTube In a program centered around the late 1940s through the early 1960s, we take a tour of the Milwaukee area as famed Trains Magazine Editor David P. Morgan might have experienced it, from the early…