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Richard Virgil Dean Steinheimer (August 23, 1929 – May 4, 2011) [ 1] was an American railroad photographer, often called the " Ansel Adams of railroad photography." His work has been published in Trains Magazine, Railfan, Locomotive and Railway Preservation and Vintage Rail, and more than seventy books. He lived in Sacramento, California.
H. C. Casserley. Henry Cyril Casserley[1] (12 June 1903 – 16 December 1991) [2] was a British railway photographer. His prolific work in the 1920s and 1930s, the result of travelling to remote corners of the railway network in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has provided subsequent generations with a comprehensive source of illustrations for ...
Ivo Peters. Ivo Peters BEM (29 July 1915 – 7 June 1989) was an English railway photographer and filmmaker. Peters spent his life in Bath, Somerset and is best known for his amateur photographs and cine films of steam railways in the British Isles, particularly of the Somerset and Dorset Railway.
The Industrial Railway Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1949 as the "Birmingham Locomotive Club – Industrial Locomotive Information Section". [1] It is devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial railways and locomotives, both in the UK and overseas. Examples include railways at collieries ...
The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum ( RGVRRM) is an operating railroad museum located in Industry, New York, a hamlet within the town of Rush. The museum started in 1971 with the purchase of a former Erie Railroad Depot from the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Since then the museum has grown to include a one-mile demonstration railroad ...
Pullman porter. A Pullman porter assisting a passenger with her luggage. Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. [1] Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought out former slaves to work on his sleeper cars. Their job was to carry passengers’ baggage, shine shoes, set up ...
The Industrial Railway Society record 34 Avonside locomotives extant in the United Kingdom as at 2008-11-01. [7] Avonside Engine Company locomotives preserved in the UK include: Cadbury No. 1, an 0-4-0 T of 1925. Coke-fired for cleanliness, it worked on the Bournville Works Railway its entire life.
MSc, FRIC, Dip Maths. Children. 2. Eric Tonks (17 July 1914 [1] – 26 December 1994 [2]) was an English writer and historian of British industrial railways. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the industrial archaeology of railways and quarrying. [2] He was also a noted Jazz discographer.