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Publications have an important role in the Center's efforts to preserve and present the best of railroad imagery. They are listed below. You can purchase them here or by printing and mailing the form at Support the Center (pdf).

Railroads and the American Industrial Landscape:
Ted Rose Paintings and Photographs

The exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, places Rose's work in a broader historic context. The catalog includes all 27 watercolor paintings and 22 photographs that appeared in the exhibition, along with essays by museum director and curator Curtis L. Carter and writer/artist Jeff Brouws. "Just as Rose's original artwork did, the catalog does a fantastic job of conveying the dynamics of railroading," Sayre C. Koss writes in "Recommended Reading" in Trains (September 2006). (68 pages, full-color, limited number available)

$22.95

Railroad Heritage No. 18, Railroading Journeys

"Railroading Journeys," Railroad Heritage® No. 18, is a special retrospective issue devoted to the life and times of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, whose books changed the way Americans think about--and look at--railroads and railroading. The 32-page issue has 59 photographs, 52 of them by Beebe or Clegg, some of them never before published. The issue considers their pictures afresh (each had a distinctive style), discusses some of the influences on their work, and defines their legacy. In their years of living in the West, beginning in 1950, Beebe and Clegg produced about thirty books, most of them devoted to railroading. Clegg's sister, Ann Clegg Holloway, wrote the introduction. (32 pages, B/W)

$14.95

It's Work

The Center, as a report of its "Representations of Railroad Work" project, has published a 32-page, 8-1/2 by 11 publication with 41 memorable images from all the exhibits. Twenty-eight photograhers are represented (four photographs are anonymous). "While driven by different motivations--some to promote or persuade, some to depict, and some to offer commentary on both the emerging and post--industrial worlds---photographers have created a visual legacy of American work and life that we have not yet fully explored, even while they make new images daily," the introduction says. Classic Trains (Summer 2007, page 90) and Railfan & Railroad (June 2007, page 12) have featured It's Work in news and reviews. This publication is part of a larger effort to explore the visual culture of railroading and better understand its heritage and future. (32 pages, B/W, limited number available)

$12.95

Railroad Heritage No. 17, Women in Railroading

To uncover the story of women in railroading was a methodical and slow undertaking spanning more than 20 years, guest editor Shirley Burman writes in "Where Were the Women?" By 2007, it was clear that women were working at railroad jobs in many capacities; they and their roles just were not talked or written about. She calls her introduction "a little known bit of history about women who chose an unusual occupation and could sing, 'I've been working on the railroad.'" The issue includes articles by Doug Riddell and Linda Grant Niemann. (24 pages, Color and B/W, limited number available)

$7.50

Railroad Heritage No. 14

"Iron Icon: The Railroad in American Art," is a special 72-page issue of Railroad Heritage. The publication, in cooperation with the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis, features the papers given by the nine speakers, accompanied by many striking color and black-and-white images from the presentations. The cover is Willard F. Elms' Land of the Pueblos (after Villa), about 1949, one of the last images in a Santa Fe poster campaign that for some 50 years featured the southwestern landscape and its native inhabitants. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation funded the symposium, held April 22-23, 2004, at the Barriger Library.

Professor John Stilgoe, describes No. 14 as "a solid scholarly demonstration that railroad-industry advertising rewards close scrutiny as art and that the railroad depicted in non-industry illustration rolls deep into national and regional history and visual culture." Stilgoe is author of Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene (1983). (72 pages, Color and B/W, limited number available)

$14.95

Railroad Heritage No. 13

"Representations of Railroad Work, Past and Present" (No. 13, 2005) takes a fresh look at the people who made and make trains run: their culture, their skills, and their unseen importance to American life. For this issue, special editor Mark W. Hemphill, former editor of Trains magazine and a former train dispatcher, with photo editor John Gruber, and a group of noted authors, photographers, and historians describe a previously unseen sensitivity to railroad work. Is railroading "just another job?" No. To the people who do it, railroading is a lifestyle, a brotherhood, a culture with its own language and identity. To the public, railroading is unknown territory. But through photography and art, the obscuring veil can be peeled back. This special issue of Railroad Heritage is not the end product of a new understanding of railroad work, but only the beginning. The North American Railway Foundation provided major funding. (38 pages, Color and B/W, limited number available)