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The Center publishes a journal, Railroad Heritage. [3] Early issues carried articles about noted photographers and artists, plus news of contemporary events. Others have been devoted to conference proceedings, the role of women in railroading, representations of work in railroad photography and art, and the photography of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.
Richard Virgil Dean Steinheimer (August 23, 1929 – May 4, 2011) [1] was an American railroad photographer from Sacramento, California.His work has been published in Trains Magazine, Railfan, Locomotive and Railway Preservation and Vintage Rail and more than seventy books.
His Pennsylvania Railroad was in his day the largest railroad in the world, with 6,000 miles of track, and was famous for steady financial dividends, high quality construction, constantly improving equipment, technological advances (such as replacing wood fuel with coal), and innovation in management techniques for a large complex organization ...
Otto Perry (1894–1970) was an American photographer and railfan specializing in railroad photos. Perry worked as a mailman in Denver, Colorado, where he met and became friends with Louis McClure, another noted photographer. [1] By the time Perry died, his collection contained more than 20,000 photos, from all parts of North America.
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
The Society holds an annual national convention, featuring exhibits and excursions using historic railroad locomotives and rolling stock. It publishes the National Railway Bulletin, a bimonthly membership newsletter containing articles, photos, and news about railroads, both past and present, as well as coverage of local chapter activities.
stereoscopic photographs of the Transcontinental Railroad Alfred A. Hart (1816–1908) was a 19th-century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad . Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad , for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s.
Harold A. Reid (1925–1992), also known by the pen name H. Reid, was an American writer, photographer, and historian. Reid's photographs of steam locomotives, captured the last days of steam motive power on America's Class I railroads, notably on the Virginian Railway, and ending with the Norfolk and Western in 1960, the last major U.S. railroad to convert from steam.