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

Bjorklund Collection Overview

Gift of Rose Bjorklund
55,000 color slides
1960s to 2000s
Coverage spans the United States and Canada

J. Parker Lamb’s Group Eight

The latest and last batch of J. Parker Lamb black-and-white photographs have been uploaded to our website, including this view of an eastbound Chesapeake and Ohio Railway freight train crossing a bridge in downtown Richmond, Virginia, in October 1961.

Check out the full album at: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/lamb/group-eight

Lamb Collection Overview

Gift of J. Parker Lamb
2,700 B&W negatives in six groups (as of March 2017, with more on the way)
1940s to 1980s (as of March 2017)
Group eight is the last batch of black-and-white photographs

John Bjorklund’s Milwaukee Road (East)

We have just uploaded selections of the Milwaukee Road (East) from our John F. Bjorklund Collection. The album includes this shot of a westbound Milwaukee Road freight train crossing drawbridge over the Mississippi River in Sabula, Iowa, on October 21, 1978.

View the entire album at our website: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/bjorklund/milwaukee-road-east

Bjorklund Collection Overview

Gift of Rose Bjorklund
55,000 color slides
1960s to 2000s
Coverage spans the United States and Canada

David Kahler’s book lecture and reception

Railroad photography came to Milwaukee as Center board member David Kahler presented his book, “The Railroad and The Art of Place,” published by the Center earlier this year. Graciously hosted by the Milwaukee Art Museum, the lecture, reception, and book signing brought in people from all over interested in Kahler’s landscape photography.

Be sure to get your copy of The Railroad and The Art of Place today.

J. Parker Lamb’s Group Seven

Browse 200 selections of Texas, the northeast, and Canada by J. Parker Lamb in this latest batch of photographs. Included is this shot of westbound Southern Pacific Railroad passenger train climbing toward Paisano Summit in Alpine, Texas, in June 1984.

View the entire album at: www.railphoto-art.org/collections/lamb/group-seven

Lamb Collection Overview

Gift of J. Parker Lamb
2,700 B&W negatives in six groups (as of March 2017, with more on the way)
1940s to 1980s (as of March 2017)
Group seven focuses on Texas and British Columbia from the early 1970s to the late 1980s