Highlights
Railroad Heritage 17
Photo by Bonnie Adams
Railroad Heritage 17 focuses on women in railroading, with Shirley Burman as guest editor. Patricia Doolette (above) started as a coach cleaner in 1977, was promoted to locomotive engineer in 1996. Receive your copy of Railroad Heritage with your gift/subscription today.
Center for Railroad
Photography & Art
1914 Monroe St.
P.O. Box 259330
Madison, WI 53725-9330
(608) 251-5785 / Email Us!
Silver Legacy Project
The Center has initiated a project to collect and catalog high quality digital copies of outstanding work by contemporary rail photographers. The initial phase of the project will collect only images from 35mm color transparencies. All photographer's images are welcome in the Center's collection and those not able to scan their own slides may send them to Mel Patrick in Denver who will do the digital scans and return the original slides to the contributing photographers.
"This is a very exciting project for us," said Patrick. "For the first time we have the ability to collect a very wide range of images for preservation and exhibition. This opens a wide range of possibilities for an ever changing gallery exhibit for the public as well as the recognition of present-day rail photographers.
Possible future use may be for publication in the Center's magazine, Railroad Heritage, a Center-produced photo book, or a multimedia program promoting public interest in rail photography. All commercial rights will remain with the contributing photographer and each photographer will be asked at the time of submission to sign a release stating what limitations, if any, are placed on each of the photographs. Rights for use may be withdrawn at any time. Photographers wishing to contribute images to the project should call Patrick at 303-399-5778 or e-mail him at melpatrick1@juno.com.