Victor Hand's Milwaukee Road:
75 New Selections
After Promontory: 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroading, prepared by the Center and published by Indiana University Press, is available now for $50 plus shipping. Click for details.
"The Center for Railroad Photography and Art has deftly presented historical images by Watkins and others alongside contemporary photographs of the famous route."
--The Wall Street Journal
Fred M. Springer's Ecuadorian Railways
Browse 153 selections from Fred Springer's travels in Ecuador, home of La Nariz del Diablo
Ted Rose in Mexico
Searching for steam in the 1960s.
Fred Springer's South African Railways
The South African Railways album is now online featuring nearly two hundred photographs from our Fred M. Springer Collection. Here, a photographer goes to great lengths to capture the image of South African Railway steam locomotives nos. 1007 and 1056 crossing the Malgaaten Bridge in Western Cape, South Africa, on March 21, 1995.
View the entire album: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/springer/south-african-railways
Springer Collection Overview
Gift of Fred and Dale Springer
8,000 B&W negatives
50,000 color slides
Coverage includes six inhabited continents, and especially the southwestern United States, Mexico, and South America
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
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
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
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