This photograph of a Sperry Rail Car on the Moodna Creek Viaduct in Orange County, New York, anchors "My Passion for Trains: Railroad Images of John Fasulo" at Steamtown in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Events

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Celebration at the Station

The O. Winston Link Museum and historic train station is presenting Celebration at the Station, a festival on May 10, 2008, to honor Roanoke's rail heritage and remember the days of the steam locomotive on Amtrak's first annual National Train Day. You might even enjoy some cotton candy or fresh lemonade along the way. Celebration 2008 will include 1/8 scale locomotive rides, a NS exhibition car, garden scale trains, the museum's red caboose, and other historical rail entertainment. For children we'll have a miniature golf course, caricatures, face painting, and a balloon twister. Enter or be entertained by the spike driving contest. Live music will permeate the grounds and we'll have food and drinks for sale. Celebration 2008 will happen from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. behind the O. Winston Link Museum by the tracks. Admission will be five dollars; with one dollar off if you bring a non-perishable food item for donation to the Southwest Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank. For more information, visit www.linkmuseum.org or call 540-982-5465

Fasulo Exhibit is at Steamtown in Scranton

Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania, is presenting a photography exhibit by John Fasulo titled, "My Passion for Trains: Railroad Images of John Fasulo." It is on display in the park's Changing Exhibits Gallery from Sunday, April 6, through June 8, 2008, during regular park hours. The photographs span a 30-year period of Fasulo's love of trains, and are a concise but dramatic representation of the integral role people played in the railroad culture. "I really identify with the railroad worker," says Fasulo. "Without them, all that machinery is just so much cold steel."

Fasulo, a member of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, is a Beacon, New York, resident and has had photographs published in National Geographic, U. S, Naval Institute, and Railroads Illustrated magazines. His exhibit features black-and-white and color photographs taken throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He credits his grandfather for his love of trains. "'Pop' was a machinist with the New York Central at the Harmon Shops, north of New York City. We would take the train from Beacon and, on our way into the city, we would often stop at Harmon where I'd get a tour of his domain. He not only got me started in photography, but sparked my interest in trains and railroading." For a sampling of his photos, go to railroadheritage.org and search for Fasulo.

The signature image from the exhibit by Kevin Scanlon is "Quinnimont Yard Shifter, Quinnimont, West Virginia, May 17, 1975."

Railroad Ties of West Virginia: An Exhibit by Kevin Scanlon

March 1-May 31, 2008, Grafton (West Virginia) Railroad Heritage Center, 100 East Main Street, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays. An opening reception and Scanlon's gallery talk is at 2 p.m. March 1. Scanlon describes the exhibit: "West Virginia reveals itself much like a book, one page at a time. The mountainous terrain and twisting valleys force you in close. Every page of the state has an interesting story to tell and another surprising view. The railroad is the thread that ties it all together. There are two themes that define my approach to photography: context and light. I am drawn to industrial subjects because of their influence on the culture of an area. Railroads are iconic in West Virginia. They were the key in developing the state, they were one of the defining factors when the state's borders were laid out and they literally carry the state away every day, one carload at a time. This series of photographs attempts to depict the railroad as an element of the landscape. Creative photography is as much about the light as anything else. I feel that quality of the light is what separates a documentary record from a creative photograph. I try to use the light to give a scene texture and emotion, and often the light itself becomes the subject. Ultimately I consider a photograph to be successful if the viewer gains a sense of the place, the feel and the perspective of the scene."

Twilight at the Tower: Photographs by Benjamin Halpern

Through June 30, 2008, Illinois Terminal, 45 East University Avenue, Champaign, Illinois 61820, telephone 217-384-3577. The last years of tower operation on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1986 to 1993. The terminal is the Amtrak stop for Champaign-Urbana. Reception for the artist, Sunday, May 4, 2 p.m.

"Louisiana Link" Present Rarely Seen Prints at Link Museum

May 10-October 1, 2008, O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia. For the first time since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, O. Winston Link's oldest exhibition of photographs documenting life in Louisiana will be on view for the public. In more than 50 images, "Louisiana Link" captures life and industry in 1937, include the daily activities of an LSU student, the Catholic blessing of the shrimp boats, oil prospecting, alligator hunting, rice harvesting, cotton marketing, bee insemination, and parties of then Governor Leche. The collection is on loan from Louisiana Link, LLC, an organization created by Link's only son, Conway, to gather and exhibit these earliest works by Link. Acquired directly from the photographer by his son, the images showcase Link's raw talent even in his early 20s and without formal training in photography.

"We are excited to have the opportunity to share with our visitors a deeper look into Link's working method and his early career work. In a great departure from our permanent galleries, this exhibition is an exploration of a culture and a man." said Kim Parker, director of the Link Museum.

Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960

September 13, 2008-January 18, 2009, Bloch Building, Galleries L13 and L14, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. "Art in the Age of Steam" will show how artists responded to the railroad from its beginnings in the 1830s to the end of the Steam Age in 1960. It includes artists from both Europe and America including Claude Monet, Charles Sheeler, and Thomas Hart Benton. Paintings, lithographs and photography will show how the railroad changed the way we live, with consequences that are still with us today.

Must Women Wear Trousers?: Women's Struggle in the Railroad Workplace, 1900-1980

Through June 15, 2008, California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento. This exhibit, first displayed at the museum in 2001, returns with a few updates and additions. Text, three-dimensional artifacts, and period illustrations are featured, including photographs of women at work on the railroad. The exhibit was accompanied by related programs during March (Women's History Month).

Where Steam Moved Mountains

Opening July 18, 2008, California State Railroad Museum. The Nevada Northern Railway in eastern Nevada is the subject of this exhibition, highlighting the industrial heritage photography of Gordon Osmundson. A Bay Area artist who has been photographing the Nevada Northern in East Ely, Nevada, since 1988, Osmundson's new book of the same title (Where Steam Moved Mountains) is about to be released by Stanford University Press. The railroad itself celebrated the centennial of its arrival in Ely in 2007. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has designated the Nevada Northern Railway's East Ely yard complex, locomotives, and rolling stock in Ely, Nevada, as a National Historic Landmark.

Aurelius O. Carpenter: Photographer of the Mendocino Frontier

September 21, 2008, through January 25, 2009, California State Railroad Museum. The first comprehensive exhibition on the work of Aurelius Ormando Carpenter (1836-1919), one of the earliest, talented photographers to set up shop in Mendocino County. His large panoramic views chronicle the coastal logging, tanbark, and shipping industries, as well as the inland region's natural attractions and agricultural products. He also produced an important body of photographs on Pomo Indian individuals and communities.

O. Winston Link Museum

A permanent collection of Link's photographs is in the renovated Norfolk & Western passenger station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. The 15,000 square-foot museum bearing his name includes 190 signed prints, 85 estate prints, and all 2,400 of Link's negatives. Museum is at 101 Shenandoah Aveue. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, Monday-Saturday, Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Toys that Move

Through September 2007. New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn Heights. As far back as history can trace, children all over the world have played with toys. Toys often portray the world in miniature, and toys that move have always held a particular fascination, reflecting real-life ways to travel. The exhibition, "Toot Toot, Beep Beep: Toys That Move," presents more than seventy transportation themed toys representing a century of technology and innovation in toy-making.

A Day on the Abingdon Branch: The Photography of O. Winston Link, 1955 -1957

Abingdon Train Station, home of the Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia, 306 Depot Square, Abingdon, Virginia. Images never before exhibited as well as a selection of favorites such as "Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper" are included. More than three dozen black and white images comprise the William King Regional Arts Center's permanent collection of Link photographs. About one-half of the collection will be on view on a rotating basis. Hours are 10-4 Monday through Friday, and 10-2 the first and third Saturday of each month. Admission is free.

Winterail

Saturday, March 14, 2009, celebrating its 31st year. Program includes a presentation by Jim Shaughnessy. Stockton, California. Tickets: Vic Neves, P.O. Box 1627, San Leandro, CA 94577

Summerail at C.U.T.

Saturday August 9, 2008. Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1301 Western Avenue, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Presenters are John Benner (Los Alamos, NM), ATSF/BNSF Under Desert Skies; Willie Davis (Milford, OH), Come Along and Ride This Train; Ron Flanary (Big Stone Gap, VA), Forever Reliable; Tom Figura (Indianapolis, IN), Glacier Country; Chris Guss (Lake Villa, IL), Let it Snow! Winter 2007-2008 in the Midwest; George Hamlin (Fairfax, VA), Georgia In My Viewfinder During the 1980s; Mike Harting (Granger, IN), Canadian Pacific - More Than A Job - A Vacation Destination; Ryan (Kris) Krengel (Pendelton, IN), Krengel's Canadian View; Dominic Morrone (Chicago, IL), Trains, Snow and Chicago; Dale Sanders (Ferndale, WA), BC Rail Northern Light; Tom Seiler (Cleveland, OH), Ohio Railroading; and Chris Starnes (Gate City, VA), Homeward Bound. Information and tickets, Bill Haines, 305 Lamar Court, Vandalia, Ohio 45377, 937-898-8220, bhaines@erinet.com.

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